Yahya Yakhlif
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Nabil Shaath (acting)
Ahmed Qurei
Yahya Yakhlif | |
|---|---|
يحيى يخلف | |
| Minister of Culture | |
| In office 12 November 2003 – 29 March 2006 | |
| Prime Minister | Ahmed Qurei Nabil Shaath (acting) Ahmed Qurei |
| Preceded by | Nabil Shaath |
| Succeeded by | Attallah Abul Sabeh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Yahya Hassan Abdullah Yakhlif 11 November 1944 |
| Party | Independent |
| Alma mater | Beirut Arab University |
| Occupation | Politician, writer, novelist, journalist |
Yahya Yakhlif (Arabic: يحيى يخلف; born 11 November 1944) is a Palestinian politician, writer, novelist and journalist.[1] He was born in Samakh, a Palestinian village that was abandoned during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, when Yakhlif was 4 years old. Consequently, Yakhlif and his family became displaced refugees.[2]
As an author and novelist, Yakhlif has published several novels and short story collections. His novel about the last days of Samakh, A Lake Beyond the Wind, was translated into English by Christopher Tingley and May Jayyusi and published by Interlink Books in 1998 in its Emerging Voices series. Ma' Al Sama, a more recent novel, also explores the condition of Palestinian exile. Ma' Al Sama was nominated for the 2009 Arabic Booker Prize.[3]
