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Ibrahim Fawal


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Ramallah, Palestinian Territory, Occupied
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Ibrahim Fawal (born 1933) is a Palestinian-American academic, former professor, and author of the historical novel On the Hills of God, about the experiences of a young Palestinian man during the Nakba, or "catastrophe" of 1948. He currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

Fawal was born in Ramallah, Palestine in 1933. He later moved to the United States, where he earned an M.A. in film from UCLA. He worked as an assistant to director David Lean during the filming of Lawrence of Arabia in 1961, before settling in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was a professor of film and literature at the University of Alabama.

In 1996, at the age of 63, Fawal began working on his Ph.D. at Oxford University in England. His thesis, on renowned Egyptian filmmaker
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Average rating: 3.88 · 171 ratings · 33 reviews · 6 distinct worksSimilar authors
On the Hills of God

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The Disinherited

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