Ali Ashour Al-Jaffar

Ali Ashour Al-Jaffar (Arabic: علي عاشور الجعفر) is a writer and academic of Kuwaiti origins, who teaches at the College of Education at Kuwait University. He is editor-in-chief of Journal of Arab Children, and owner of the “Arabic storypedia” website, which publishes the summaries of children's stories in the Arab world.

His life
Ali Ashour Al-Jaffar was born on 15 December 1963 in Kuwait. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Arabic Language Teaching Methods at the College of Education at Kuwait University in 1987, and a Master's in Education at the Primary Level at Indiana University Bloomington in the United States of America in 1995, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the same university in 1998.

Career

 * Instructor at Kuwait University from 1998 to May 2006.
 * Director of the Centre for Practical Education at the College of Education "Kuwait University" from 2004 to 2006.
 * Director of the Master's Program in the Curriculum Department from 2010 to 2011.
 * Professor, Department of Curricula and Teaching Methods, College of Education, Kuwait University, from 2006 until now.

Books
Ashour published three collections of short stories for children by Dar Al Hadaek: "My Sister Sees by Smell", "The Square Story", and "We Make a House of Dust". His latest publication, in 2020, entitled: "The Beautiful Surprised Object: A Reading in Children's Poetic Fiction". And he has three translations of books issued by The Children of Reggio.

Awards
Ali Ashour Al-Jafar won the award for the best doctoral thesis at the level of the Curriculum Department at the College of Education, Indiana University - Bloomington, United States in 1998. He also won the State Prize in 2016 in the field of Education for the book “Children’s Literature and Politics: Diversity and Difference.”