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Atef Abu Saif

Contributor

Atef Abu Saif

Atef Abu Saif was born in Jabaia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in 1973. He attended school in Gaza. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Birzeit and a masters’ degree from Bradford. Recently, he received his PhD in political and social sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. He is the author of five novels: Shadows in the Memory (1997), The Tale of the Harvest Night (1999), Snowball (2000), The Salty Grape of Paradise (2003 & 2006), and A Suspended Life (2014), shortlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arab Fiction (IPAF). He has also published two collections of short stories, Everything is Normal (2004) and Still Life: Stories from Gaza Time (2013), as well as several books on politics. He is a regular contributor to a number of Palestinian and Arabic newspapers and journals. In 2014 Atef edited The Book of Gaza, as part of Comma Press’s “City in Short Fiction” series, which featured ten short stories by ten contemporary authors from the Strip.

Articles by Atef Abu Saif

Writing the Lives of Gaza: Video Interview with Atef Abu Saif
By Luisa Leme & Atef Abu Saif
Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif reads from his work.
Multimedia
Still Life: Scenes in Gaza Time
By Atef Abu Saif
He discovered suddenly that Gaza had a sea-a big sea too.
Translated from Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins