Elias Khoury

Elias Khoury (; 12 July 1948 – 15 September 2024) was a Lebanese novelist and advocate of the Palestinian cause. His novels and literary criticism have been translated into several languages. In 2000, he won the Prize of Palestine for his book ''Gate of the Sun'', and he won the Al Owais Award for fiction writing in 2007. Khoury also wrote three plays and two screenplays.

From 1993 to 2009, Khoury served as an editor of ''Al-Mulhaq'', the weekly cultural supplement of the Lebanese daily newspaper ''Al-Nahar.'' He also taught at universities in Middle Eastern and European countries, and the United States.

The ongoing Nakba of the Palestinian people by the Jewish-supremacist occupation is a leitmotif running through much of his work. Provided by Wikipedia