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Waleed Abubaker (Born 1938) is a Palestinian literary critic, novelist, and journalist, born and bred in Ya’bad. He studied philosophy and worked in the field of social and journalistic research. He has notable participations in cultural, Arab journalism as an editor, critic and editor-in-chief. He worked for a period of his life as a physics teacher in Ramallah High school, and he is a member of the General Union for Palestinian Writers and the Literary Criticism Society. He translated many literary publications and showed in interested in translating works of children’s literature.

Biography
He was born and raised in the village of Ya’bad in Jenin subdistrict in Mandatory Palestine  in 1938. He received his elementary and high school education in local schools, then he moved to Amman where he attended the Teachers’ Institute. After he graduated, he relocated to Ramallah to work as a high school physics teacher from 1957 to 1959, until he was arrested in 1960. After his release, he moved to Kuwait, and completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy and sociology in Beirut Arab University and his graduate studies in Kuwait University in Science Philosophy. He worked in Kuwaiti journalism, where he started as an editor then department head, the editor-in-chief of a magazine. He published many critical articles in several Kuwaiti magazines, the most notable of which is Al Bayan. He lived in Kuwait for almost thirty years, then went back to his hometown Ramallah. He worked there as the president of Ugarit Cultural Center and resumed his journalistic career and contributed to Al Ayyam newspaper.

Works
In April 2021, on the occasion of the Palestinian Culture Day, the General Union for Palestinian Writers issued his “completed fictional works.” These works include 4 novels: Infection, Threads, Affection, and Faces .

Novels:

 * Infection, 1978
 * Threads, 1980
 * Affection, 1998
 * Faces, 2003

His Writings on Criticism and Studies:

 * The Social Issue in the Kuwaiti Theater, 1985
 * Sorrows in the Spring of Oranges: A Case-Study on Samira Azzam, 1985
 * The Third Voice in the Kuwaiti Story, 1985
 * Reality and Challenge in the Occupied Territory Novel, 1989
 * The Environment in the Story of the Arabian Gulf,1991
 * The Image of the Arab in Israeli Literature,1994
 * Body Language in the Theater, or Body Language on Stage, 1999
 * Mood in the Literary Text and the Risks of Normalization in the Palestinian Narrative, 2014


 * Representations of Reality in Storytelling Art


 * Writing with the Flavor of Death, a critical study, 2010


 * The Phenomenon of Acculturation and its Destructive Effects on the Narrative - a new study on a different critical term, 2017


 * The Original Idea in the Inner Fabric of the Novel, 2021

His Literary Translations:

 * The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories, by Etgar Keret 2003
 * Red Sky in the Morning, by Elizabeth Laird 2003
 * Games For Actors and Non-Actors, by Augusto Boal 2006
 * A series of Vikingserien, Norwegian Novel by Torill Thorstad Hauger, 2005
 * Nattfuglene, A Norwegian Novel by Tormod Haugen 2005
 * Snow Storm، A Children's Story, 2004
 * Farewell, Rhona, Marit Kaldhol, a children's story, 2005
 * The Boy Who Wanted to Own Snow, Dag Heyerdahl Larsen, Children's Story, 2007
 * Election Day in the Savannah, a children's story, 2007

His Non-Literary Translations:

 * History Curricula in Israeli School Books, 2005
 * Legislative Theatre: Using Performance to Make Politics, by Augusto Boal 2010
 * Sparking Student Creativity: Practical Ways to Promote Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving, 2016
 * The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality, 2018

Other:

 * "The Good Day of Sorrows", a collection of poetry, 1976


 * "The First and the Last", two plays, 1982
 * “The Sword and the Pen”, a play, 2006