Elias Sanbar Explained
Elias Wadih Sanbar (Arabic: إلياس صنبر) (born 1947) is a Palestinian historian, poet, essayist, translator and diplomat.[1] Since 2012 he has been the Palestinian ambassador to UNESCO.[2] [3]
During the late 1960s Sanbar was a member of the French branch of the General Union of Palestinian Students which was established by Mahmoud Hamshari in Paris.[4] [5] Through the Union Hamshari organized the visit of the Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard to Jordan and Lebanon where he met with the Palestinian fighters in 1969.[4] Sanbar accompanied Godard during the visit.[4]
Sanbar co-founded Revue d'études palestiniennes [The Journal of Palestine Studies] in 1981, and was the journal's editor-in-chief for 25 years.
He has translated the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish into French.
Sanbar's book The Palestinians was the 2015 winner of the Palestine Book Awards.[6]
Select Works
- Palestine 1948, l’expulsion (1984)
- Les Palestiniens dans le siècle (1994)
- Palestine, le pays à venir (1996)
- Le Lit de l’étrangère (2000) (translated from Mahmoud Darwish)
- Le bien des absents (2001)
- Palestiniens: la photographie d’une terre et de son peuple de 1839 à nos jours (2004)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Writer Elias Sanbar and Spain’s Biblioteca Islámica to receive 2015 UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture. en.unesco.org. 2016-11-15.
- http://www.france24.com/fr/20131107-lentretien-elias-sanbar-ambassadeur-de-palestine-unesco-histoire-heritage Elias Sanbar, ambassadeur de Palestine auprès de l'Unesco
- http://www.unesco.org/eri/cp/cp-nav.asp?country=PS&language=E Palestine
- Book: Khadijeh Habashneh. Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit. 2023. Palgrave Macmillan. Cham. 978-3-031-18858-9. 37. Samirah Alkassim. Nadine Fattaleh. 10.1007/978-3-031-18858-9. 259622256.
- News: 49 عاما على اغتيال محمود الهمشري. 16 October 2023. ar. Palestinian Information Center. 10 January 2022.
- Web site: Elias Sanbar - Palestine Book Awards. palestinebookawards.com. 2016-11-15.