Elias Khoury

Elias Khoury was born in 1948 in Achrafieh, in Beirut, into a middle-class Greek Orthodox family. As a young man he joined Fatah and fought in the civil war on the pro-Palestinian side; gravely wounded, he lost his sight for a time. Trained in history at the Lebanese University and then in Paris, he edited the review Shuʾūn Filasṭīniyya, ran the cultural pages of as-Safīr and then the literary supplement of an-Nahār, and taught in Beirut as well as in New York. He died on 15 September 2024.

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• NovelLittle Mountainالجبل الصغيرElias Khoury · 1977Literature