Fayiz Mahmud Abdul Qadir Al-Hsan

Fayiz Mahmud Abdul Qadir Al-Hsan
Born	1941
July 12, 2011July 12, 2011
💼 Occupation	Novelist

Fayiz Mahmud Abdul Qadir Al-Hsan (Arabic:فايز محمود) born in 1941 and died in 2011, was a Jordanian writer and scholar who was an adviser to the Jordanian Minister of Culture from 1991 to 2001, as well as a member of the Jordanian Writers Association, a member of the Arab Writers' Union and a leading thinker of the resistance.

Upbringing and profession

Born in Al Manshieh/Mafraq Governorate in 1941, he received his junior year certificate from Mafraq High School in 1985 and worked during the years of 1962-1965 in cooperation with al-Manar newspaper, Palestine and Incidents, and in 1966-1967 he worked as a representative of the Jordanian Family Magazine in Kuwait in cooperation with Al-Bayan newspaper and a number of other Kuwaiti newspapers. In 1977-1971, he worked as an employee in the Media and Public Relations Department of the Capital Secretariat, and in 1970-1971 he worked as an employee in the Ministry of Culture and Information, and during the years 1971-1974 he was assigned by the Ministers of Culture to work for Amman Radio. During 1972-1973, he served as a cultural consultant at Philadelphia Publishing House, and during 1974-1976 he worked as a radio commentator, and in 1977-1979 he collaborated with the Jordanian Al-Akhbar newspaper, and in 1980-1981 he worked as a cultural consultant for Al Fajr newspaper in Abu Dhabi, he also worked as editor of The Arab Times magazine in Sharjah, and as a representative of al-Rai al-Arabi newspaper in the UAE. During the years 1982-1987, he served as a press representative for al-Rai newspaper and the voice of the people in Mafraq governorate, he was also an editor of the Al-Mwaqef Al-Urdoniya Magazine, He was a cultural advisor to Dar al-Fadin Publishing, al-Moharer newspaper, and during the years 1988-1990 as editor-in-chief of Afkar magazine, and during the years 1991-2001, he served as advisor to the Minister of Culture, editor-in-chief of The Voice of the Generation magazine and a member of the Editorial Board of The Afkar Magazine and a member of the Planning and Coordination Committee of the Ministry. He is a member of the Association of Jordanian Writers (i.e., former foreign affairs in its administrative body), a founding member of the Al-Mafraq Cultural Forum, the Cultural Association for the Generalization of the Classical Language (a member of its administrative body) and a founding member of the Friends of Antiquities Association in Mafraq governorate.

He was awarded the Ghaleb Halsa Prize for Cultural Creativity by the Writers Association in 1994 and the Al Hussein Medal for Excellence in The First Category in Literature in 2000.

Publications

1. The Truth (A Search for Existence) (original title: Al-haqiqa, (baḥaṯa fī alwujūdi) ) 1971
2. Unsuccessfully Transit (Stories) (original title: al-ʿubūri bidūni jadwā), 1973
3. Idiot (Story) (original title: al-ʾabilah), 1979
4. Tribes (Stories) (original title: al-qabāʾili), 1981
5. The Problem of Love (Human Hardship to No Avail) (original title: mushkilat alhabi (alieana' al'iinsaniu dun jadwaa) ), 1982
6. Mafraq (History of The Desert) (original title: al-mufarriqu (tārīkhu ṣaḥiruwāya) , 1983
7. Tayseer Spaul (Strange Arab) (original title: taysīru subūli (ālʿarabiyyi alḡarībi) ), 1984
8. Freedom and Necessity (in human and ant societies) (original title: al-ḥurriyyuhi wālḍḍarūrahu (fī mujtamiʿāti alānsāni wālnnamli) ), 1985
9. Philosophical Papers, (original title: awrāq falisafiyya), 1988.
10. Three blocked inscriptions (1) (original title: ṯalāṯatun nuqūshin maḥjūbatun), 1989.
11. Three Blocked Inscriptions (2) (original title: ṯalāṯatun nuqūshin maḥjūbatun), 1997.
12. Echo of Wishes (essay texts) (original title: ṣaddā alminā) , 1990.
13. Cain (Stories) (original title: qābīl), 1991.
14. Perspectives (in Thought and Science) (original title: āfāq (fī alfikri wālʿulūmi), 1996.
15. Bleeding Amplifiers (Anecdotal Texts) (original title: nazzafa mukābiru), 1996
16. Three blocked inscriptions (2) (original title: ṯalāṯatun nuqūshin maḥjūbatun), 1997.
17. No Tribe (Anthology of Stories) (original title: bilā qabīlatin), 1997.
18. Jordan National Perspectives, (original title: al-iāridanu āfāqi waṭanayhi waqawmayyahi), 1998.
19. Dawn, (original title: shurūqu), 1998.
20. Collection of Complete Stories (original title: al-ʾaʿmāli alqaṣaṣiyyatu alkāmilatu), 2006.

Some critics argue that Fayهz Mahmud plagiarized the writings of others and included them in his writing texts publicly. In the Cultural Attaché of the Jordanian newspaper Al-Rai, Friday 4/4/2000 edition, Syrian thinker Sobhi Hadidi says: Fayiz Mahmud published an article entitled "Myth and Meaning (Strauss)” (original title: al-ʾusṭūrati wālmaʿnā (shutarāwisu), which amounted to 965 words, in the census of the computer he used, there wasn’t any original work except, his own writing amount to less than ... 60 words! Other than this, the text is entirely copied from the famous French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss's "Myth and Meaning", which I had the honour of translating into Arabic and its first edition was published in 1985.

Death

Fayiz Mahmud suffered an unfortunate accident in which he broke one of the back vertebrae, despite the health and life conditions that befell him in recent years, he was persistent in continuing to write, and months later, the writer died at dawn on Tuesday 7/12/2011, alone and neglected in the University of Jordan hospital due to a severe heart attack, where he was waiting for a prison sentence for not paying the rent. Saud Kabyat, points out that the poor conditions suffered by the late Fayiz Mahmud, he says: I know that his life was difficult and his living conditions were harsh, and this is unfortunate especially for a well-known writer like Fayez Mahmoud, this is the responsibility of society and the state, this should be a lesson for the future to not to leave any writer or creator in such a bad situation, and it is offensive to the reputation of the country that intellectuals, thinkers and writers suffer from such painful circumstances which Fayez Mahmoud has always long suffered from. The Minister of Culture, Samawi, mourned the late writer, stressing that the Jordanian cultural community had lost a creator, thinker and intellectual who contributed to the Arab library's many books that cares about a variety of fields of thought, creativity and knowledge. He enriched the Jordanian Library and the Arab Library with the novels of his works and to al-Rai newspaper he was one of its most prestigious writers.

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