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Khairi Mansour

Sunday, 18 January 2009

Biography:

Khairi Mansour was born in Deir al-Ghusoon near Tulkarrn in 1945. He studied in Cairo. In 1967 he was deported from the West Bank to Kuwait, later working in Baghdad as an editor of Al-Aqlant literary magazine. He has published five poetry collections, three books of literary essays and in 1994 an autobiograpical work Sabi' al-Asra'a [Child of Secrets]. Today he is a columnist for Arab newspapers in Doha and London, and is cultural editor of Ad-Dastour daily newspaper in Armman, where he lives.