Rashid al-Daif

Rashid al-Daif was born on 6 August 1945 in Zgharta, into a Maronite family of eight children. With a degree in Arabic from the Lebanese University, he took a doctorate in Paris on the poetry of Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, supervised by André Miquel, then taught at the Lebanese University from 1974 to 2008, before the Lebanese American University and the American University of Beirut, where he teaches creative writing. A poet and novelist, he has been translated into many languages.

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• NovelDear Mr Kawabataعزيزي السيد كواباتاRashid al-Daif · 1995Literature