Elias Sanbar
Palestinian historian, poet and diplomat (born 1947)
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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]
1947 (age 78–79)
Elias Sanbar | |
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| Born | Elias Wadih Sanbar 1947 (age 78–79) |
| Occupations | Historian, poet, essayist, translator, diplomat |
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, France.[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.[6]
He has translated the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish into French.[1]
Sanbar's book The Palestinians was the 2015 winner of the Palestine Book Awards.[7]
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)
- La Dernière Guerre? Palestine, 7 octobre 2023 – 2 avril 2024 (2024)[8]
