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Worldview 4/13/2009
Biography of Palestinian Poet Taha Muhammad Ali




 
 
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Palestinian Poet Taha Muhammad Ali, the subject of Adina Hoffman's new book.

Taha Muhamad Ali is a Palestinian poet. He was born in 1931 in a Galilee village called Suhforia. The village was destroyed in 1948 and Taha ended up settling in Nazareth and becoming an Israeli citizen. There’s a new book about his life called, My happiness bears no relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century.

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