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BIOGRAPHY

Elias Khoury was born in 1948 within an Orthodox middle-class family in the Ashrafiyye district of Beirut. He was a left-handed who never enjoyed or loved being one. At the age of 8, he started enjoying Jurji Zaydan's readings which, later on, taught him more about Islams and about his arabic background. Eventually, Elias stopped reading his novels because he considered them ignorant and naive. Accordingly, he switched from reading Zaydan's readings to other writers' published work. Moreover, Elias was interested in three types pf readings: Classical Arabic Literature, Lierary texts associated with the movement of modernity, and Russian novels and stories of different writers such as Pushkin and Tshikof. As Lebanese intellectual life became increasingly polarised, with the opposition taking on a radical Arab nationalist and pro-Palestinian hue, 19-year-old Khoury traveled to Jordan, where he visited a Palestinian refugee camp and enlisted in Fatah, the largest resistance organization in the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. He left Jordan after thousands of Palestinians were published novels. He believes that one should never limit himself as each setback may seem as the end in life. That is why Elias writes as if he has never written before.

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