Elias Sanbar
Elias Wadih Sanbar (born 1947) is a Palestinian historian, poet, essayist, translator and diplomat. Since 2012, he has been the Palestinian ambassador to UNESCO. During the late 1960s, Sanbar was a member of the French branch of the General Union of Palestinian Students, which was established by Mahmoud Hamshari in Paris, France. Through the union, Hamshari organized the visit of the Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard to Jordan and Lebanon, where he met with the Palestinian fighters in 1969.
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Elias Sanbar
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- Birth Name
- Elias Wadih Sanbar
- Born
- 1947
- Birthplace
- Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
- Occupation
- Historian, poet, essayist, translator, diplomat
- Nationality
- Palestine
- Education
- Paris Law Faculty · Princeton University
- Honours
- Franco-Arabic Friendship Award · Grand prix de la francophonie · Associate Member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences
- Languages
- Arabic · French
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Elias Wadih Sanbar (born 1947) is a Palestinian historian, poet, essayist, translator and diplomat. Since 2012, he has been the Palestinian ambassador to UNESCO. During the late 1960s, Sanbar was a member of the French branch of the General Union of Palestinian Students, which was established by Mahmoud Hamshari in Paris, France. Through the union, Hamshari organized the visit of the Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard to Jordan and Lebanon, where he met with the Palestinian fighters in 1969.
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Sanbar accompanied Godard during the visit. Sanbar co-founded Revue d'études palestiniennes [The Journal of Palestine Studies] in 1981, and was the journal's editor-in-chief for 25 years. He has translated the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish into French. Sanbar's book The Palestinians was the 2015 winner of the Palestine Book Awards.
Elias Sanbar studied at Paris Law Faculty and Princeton University. The recorded working language is Arabic and French. Employment is recorded with Paris Diderot University and Princeton University. Positions recorded include ambassador of Palestine and Permanent Representative of Palestine to UNESCO. Distinctions recorded are Franco-Arabic Friendship Award, Grand prix de la francophonie and Associate Member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences.
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• Birth Name — Elias Wadih Sanbar • Born — 1947 • Birthplace — Haifa, Mandatory Palestine • Occupation — Historian, poet, essayist, translator, diplomat
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• Palestine 1948, l’expulsion (1984) • Les Palestiniens dans le siècle (1994) • Palestine, le pays à venir (1996) • Le Lit de l’étrangère (2000) (translated from Mahmoud Darwish) • Le bien des absents (2001) • Palestiniens: la photographie d’une terre et de son peuple de 1839 à nos jours (2004) • La Dernière Guerre? Palestine, 7 octobre 2023 – 2 avril 2024 (2024)
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- 1.en.unesco.org. Writer Elias Sanbar and Spain's Biblioteca Islámica to receive 2015 UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture.
- 2.Armelle Charrier, "Elias Sanbar, ambassadeur de Palestine auprès de l'Unesco", France 24, 8 November 2013.
- 3.Palestine, UNESCO.
- 4.Khadijeh Habashneh. Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit. Palgrave Macmillan. 37. 2023. 978-3-031-18858-9.
- 5.49 عاما على اغتيال محمود الهمشري. Palestinian Information Center. 10 January 2022.
- 6.Academic Figures Elias Sanbar. all4palestine.com.
- 7.palestinebookawards.com. Elias Sanbar - Palestine Book Awards.
- 8.Elias Sanbar, Palestinian historian: 'Netanyahu and his settler government want to bury the chance for peace'. Le Monde. 19 May 2024.
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