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Background on Sayed Kashua

• Israeli Palestinian writer, born in 1975 in the city of Tira, in the “triangle” region of Galilee, where most of Israel’s Arab population lives. His father was a bank teller and political activist and his mother was a teacher. He is married to Najat Kashua and they have three children.
• Kashua was first exposed to Jewish Israelis when he received a scholarship to attend a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem for high school. He then studied at the Hebrew University. Afterwards, Kashua and his family lived in both Arab and Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem.
• Kashua writes in Hebrew and says he is more comfortable in Hebrew than Arabic. He writes across many genres—including novels and weekly newspaper columns. Kashua is also the creator and writer of the popular television show Arab Labor. One of his novels, Dancing Arabs, was adapted into a movie. His work tends to focus

  Sayed Kashua, 1975- - CIE

• Sayed Kashua, a writer, journalist and screenwriter, was born in the Israeli Arab town of Tira in Between , he studied at the High School for Sciences and Arts in Jerusalem, and later philosophy and sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The Jewish Works of Sayed Kashua - JSTOR

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Sayed Kashua, 1975- - CIE

• Arab-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua moved to Jerusalem as a child and has devoted his life to telling Israelis the Palestinian story.