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Abdulla Issa (Arabic: عبدالله عيسى, 15 January 1964, Yarmouk Camp, Syria) in the Russian media also found transcription Abedalla Iesa or Abdalla Isa - Palestinian poet, first Secretary of the Embassy of the State of Palestine, journalist, political analyst, film producer, winner of several literary awards, is recognized as the national Palestinian poet. It is called one of the representatives of "the poetry of updates".
Biography
Abdulla was born in the Yarmouk Camp under the Damascus. The origin of the Kurds, and his family originates from the Sultan of Salah ad-Din Yusuf. His father, like many other Palestinian Arabs, after the capture of his village Akrad, Palestine during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War was banished to Syria, where he worked in the city hall of Damascus. In 1987 he was killed by Palestinians in the course of inter-Palestinian political conflict. He is survived by 13 children. Abdulla was the oldest child Mahmoud and Fauzia after the assassination of his father became the head of the family.
Since childhood, thanks to family, began to study the Quran and classical Arabic poetry, although the family home and in the entire camp there were only two books – Quran and a collection of poems Mahmoud Darwish. The stories of the grandmothers of the tragic memories of the Palestine and the promise to become a poet, this little Abdulla guest of the family of Yasser Arafat in 1976, influenced his fate. Later he devoted Arafat many verses.
In 1982 finished secondary school in Damascus and then came the Economic Institute. During his studies he worked in the department of culture and literature central Arabian magazine "Freedom".
In 1984 he became the laureate of the "New arabian poetry". In 1985 at the age of 21 he published his first collection of poems in Arabic "the Last part" (Hazi Aslanov). In 1985-1989 he was editor of the magazine "New tomorrow". In 1986 he became a laureate of the prize of the Union of writers of the Arab countries.
In 1989 he moved to Soviet Union, where he began to study the Russian language at the preparatory courses at the Moscow State University. In 1991, in Moscow led the Palestinian democratic Union in the apparatus of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
From 1993 to 2003, was the editor for cultural programs, TV and radio company "Voice of Russia". Author of TV programs about the culture of Russia and the Arab countries.
In 1994, he worked as an editor of the literary magazine "Poets".
In 1995 he graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, the separation of "Poetry". In 2001 he defended his thesis at Institute of Asian and African Countries on "Means of artistic expression of the Arabic "New poetry": the Second half of the XX century". In 2002 he became an academician of the Academy "Eurasia" at UNESCO. Since 1998, Secretary General of the International Arab Union of journalists and writers.
From 2003 he is the editor-in-chief of the Russian agency of the Iranian-Arab TV channel "Al-Alam".
Since 2003, is a political analyst on Russian and the Arab world.
In 2004, the Russian security services asked him for help in negotiations with the militants who committed the Terrorist act in Beslan (The Republic of North Ossetia-Alania) and seized hostages school. Took a series of documentary films "Beslan".
From 2005 to 2009 he worked as the producer of series of documentaries for the television network Al Jazeera ("Their archives and our history", "Meeting in exile").
From 2007 to 2009 worked as the chief editor of the Russian agency of the Arab news Agency "ANA".
In 2010 he executive produced the feature film "Ispytanie smertyu" directed by Vladimir Nakhabtsev about was a Soviet intelligence officer Alexei Kozlov, who is recognized as a Hero of the Russian Federation, starring Oleg Taktarov. In the same year became executive producer of the feature film "Encounters: the True story. Tehran-43"directed by Vladimir Nakhabtsev about was a Soviet intelligence officer Gevork Vartanian and his wife Goar.
From 2012 to 2013, director of the film documentary project "Muslims are proud of Russia". The project is aimed at real-world examples to show that there is no conflict between the terms "Muslim" and "Russian patriot".
In 2013, director and producer of the film "And we love life" about the life of the blockade of Gaza, Palestina made «ART FILM» and «TVOROG Media Group» with the participation of Prime Minister of the Gaza Ismail Haniyeh, executive producer Ramil Khayrulin. This unusual pattern is somewhere between fiction and documentary films: within invented scenario shows the real heroes and stories, filmed real-life situations and emotions of the people who survived the terrible tragedy.
In 2013 he became editor and host of the radio program "Cultural café of Abdullah Issa" to TV and radio company "Voice of Russia".
In 2015, became the first secretary of the Embassy of the State of Palestine.
In 2015, received the highest state award of the State of Palestine for "Achievement in culture, art and science - the degree of the creator".
Poetry
- 1985 – «Last part» (Hazi)
- 1987 – «Dead are prepared for burial» (Mauta youidduna aljanaza)
- 1996 – «Alaaa (Benefit of divine)» (Alaa)
- 1997 – «Ink of the first heaven» (Hibr al-samaa al- ula)
- 2000 – «Rise of the fences» (Kiamatu alaswar)
- 2013 – «Shepherds of the sky, the shepherds of grass» (Ruaatalsamaa ruaat algufla)
- 2014 – «Father is my brothers,not a wolf» (Ikhwati ya abi la alzib)
Books
- 1987 – «Visions in poetry» (Ruya fi Ashir)
- 2001 – «Word and spirit in contemporary poetics» (Alkalima ua alruh fi alshiriya almuasera)
