Musa Hawamdeh

He studied high school in Hebron and was arrested more than once when he was a student there. He went to the University of Jordan and studied in the Arts College. He was arrested in the second year and imprisoned in solitary for three months and he got suspended of the university for one year then he came back to study and graduated from the Department of Arabic Language in 1982. Filmmaker Nasser Omar directed a documentary highlighting Musa's poetic journey, broadcast as part of the program "These Others" on Orbit Channel and various satellite channels.

• Name — Musa Hawamda • Born — 1959 • Birthplace — Hebron, Palestine • Education — University of Jordan in 1982

Hawamda began to publish his poems in the supplement of Al-Dustour Al-Thaqafi newspaper in the early 1980s when he was student and published his first poetry collection entitled Shaghab (1988 in Amman). He was banned from traveling and working until the beginning of the democracy era in Jordan. this when he joined Al-Sha`ab newspaper, then the Al-Dustour newspaper, then editing manager at Al-Arab Al-Youm newspaper. he is working currently as editing manager of the Cultural Department in the Jordanian constitution.

• Illustration — Hawamdeh recites poetry at the Royal Cultural Center, Amman. • Shaghab was the first poetry collection published in 1988. • In 1988, he published his second poetry collection Tazdadeen Samaa Wa Basaateen which are love poems. • In 1999, he published his third poem collection Shajaray Aala (by the Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing in Beirut), which led to the anger of the Islamic extremists who would justify killing him. The diwan was confiscated by the Ministry of Media of Jordan in March 2000 and submitted to the legal courts on May 5. At the same year he complied to the legal court and tried five times because the Court of Appeal refused to reject the case. After the legal courts finished of the case at the end of 2001, The Ministry of Media represented by Press and Publication of Department filed a new case against him. After several months in July 2002, The court announced his aquatically on the charge of insulting religions and violating the publications law, but the Attorney General appealed the verdict against him. A decision was issued to imprison him for three months by the Amman Criminal Court for violating the Press and Publication Law, on his famous book Shajari Alaoui, which was confiscated in Jordan. • The Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing published his fourth poetry book (The Journeys of Moses in the Last Era) after the Publications Department removed many poems from it. • In 2004, he published his fifth poetry collection from The Sea Side by the Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing in Beirut. • In 2007, his sixth poetry book was published by Dar Al-Shorouk, titled Sulalatay Alreeh Wa Unwanay Almatar. It is the poem for which it won two French prizes in 2006, namely the award of the French Cultural Foundation in Nancy and the Laplum Prize from the Terranova Poetry Festival. • the Cultural Palaces Authority in Cairo issued for him, and as part of a series of Arab Creativity, an anthology of poetry entitled Sulalatay Alreeh Wa Unwanay Almatar, and Other Poems in 2010. Mawta Yajuroon Alsamaa by Arabesque House in Cairo in 2011, and the Egyptian General Book Authority reprinted the same collection in 2012. • A second edition of Mawta Yajuroon Alsamaa on the Egyptian General Book Authority in Egypt 2012 as part of the Arab Creativity Series. • A third edition of Sulalatay Alreeh Wa Unwanay Almatar within the Family Library Project / Ministry of Culture / Amman 2013. • Body of the Sea, a robe for the poem, Dar Noon Emirates 2015. He has three prose books in satirical literature like: Hikayat Al-Sumoo (2000 by Daar Alshouroo in Ram Allah and Amman). It was translated by Laila Al-Tai Melton for the English magazine Banipal in the latest issue devoted to modern Palestinian literature.