Sayed Kashua
How Sayed Kashua Became an Outsider in Israel — and in America
Sayed Kashua is a celebrated successful writer, filmmaker and professor. Even so, when he left home, he found that he was just as out of place as a Palestinian in the Midwest as he was back in Israel.
Six Arab Women Writers You Should Be Reading
It’s time for American Jews to go beyond Palestinian-Israel author and journalist Sayed Kashua and find the variety and depth of Arab women writers.
Arab Writer Joins Haredi Family Drama
Sayed Kashua, Israel’s famed Palestinian literary figure, is set to join the production team of ‘Shtisel,’ a hit drama about an ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem family.
Portraying Inner Conflict of Israeli-Arabs
Sayed Kashua’s ‘Second Person Singular’ illuminates Israeli Arabs’ fraught condition as insiders and outsiders and their painful struggle to create a life of meaning.
Sayed Kashua and Omri Herzog Win Bernstein Literary Prize
Crossposted from Haaretz
Sayed Kashua in Demand, Israeli Press in Purgatory
Israeli Arabs have never been so in demand, and they have the strong showing of the hard-line anti-Arab Yisrael Beiteinu party to thank. This is the thesis of the novelist and satiric columnist Sayed Kashua in Haaretz. Kashua, one of the country’s best-known Israeli Arab writers, has a knack of giving a great insight in to the complexities of Israeli-Arab identity, which he alludes to so entertainingly this essay.