Life
1960- ; ed. UCD, with BA in Near-Eastern Languages (Modern Arabic / Biblical
Hebrew),proceeding to an MPhil on “‘The Development of the Palestinian
and Israeli Novel”; Irish Press Hennessy Short Story Award
finalist, 1981; issued short stories as The Coast of Malabar (Dublin:
O’Brien Press 1988), winner of Francis McManus Award; also The
Fetch (Dublin Th. Fest. 1990), a one-act play, and radio plays, The
Doppler Effect (RTE 1990), The Gala Gala Man (RTE 1990) and
The Kithogue (RTE 1991), winning the P. J .O’Connor Radio Play
Award in 1990; acted as Moderator at Palestinian-Israeli Literary Forum
(Cuirt Fest., Galway 2000); lectures incl. ‘The Palestinian in Israeli
Literature’ (Feile Na Bealtaine, Dingle, May 2002) and ‘The Arab in the
Israeli Novel’ (Bronfman Lecture Series, TCD, October 2002); winner of
Lar Cassidy Award for Prose and Arts Council of Ireland Grant, 2002; The
Luck Penny, a novel in progress, is set in mid-nineteenth-century
Ireland and England and loosely relates to the life of Dr. Edward Hincks,
a Church of Ireland minister who deciphered Akkadian cuneiform. DIL
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