Omar bin Ghina

Omar bin Ghina
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Born	1944 Medjedel, Msila province, Algeria
🏳️ Nationality	Algeria
🏫 Education	University of Algiers
💼 Occupation

Omar bin Ghina (Arabic:عمر بن قينة) is an Algerian writer, academic researcher, who worked as a professor of modern Arabic literature at Arab universities (1978-2012).

Education

Ghina was born in Medjedel, M'Sila Province which is located in the south of Algeria in 1944. He studied his primary education, which continued in M'Sila Province, and completed his first university studies at the Algiers 1 University and Ecole normale superieure (ENS). He later continued his academic studies and obtained a PhD from University of Algiers in 1976. He later earned his doctorate in 1992.

Teaching

Ghina worked in several universities, including the following:

• (1978- 1996) Algiers 1 University, college of Arts and Humanities, collaborating at the same time at the University of Tizi Ouzou

• (1997-1995) Professor at the High School of Arts and Humanities in Algeria

• (1997-2000) Qatar University, College of Arts

• (2000-2001) Sanaa University: College of Arts

• (2002 - 2012) College of Arts and Humanities (King Abdulaziz University) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

He headed a scientific research group at the University of Algiers where he supervised many Master and PhD theses and participated as well in the discussion of more than 25 Master and PhD theses, most of them in Algeria, and headed most of their committees. He followed the same tasks outside Algeria, particularly at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah.

Editing

He was a researcher, writer, intellectual, storyteller, and novelist. He has authored numerous academic university publications, general and specialized research, collections of short stories and novels, and collections of intellectual, political, and literary articles published in various countries including: Algeria, Syria, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan, Yemen, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Paris, Libya and Tunisia.

He produced cultural programs for the Algerian Radio, the National Radio, Channel 1 during 1971-1981, then in the beginning of the 1990s, he produced a daily literary program named "Good Night", and then produced three weekly programs in different years including: "the pulpit of the poets", "the book of ether", and "the history of Arabic literature in Algeria then and now". He also took over the Maghreb Magazine, which broadcasts every month from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.

He wrote in the most important Algerian newspapers, Arab newspapers, and general and specialized magazines in Algeria, Paris, Libya, Iraq, Yemen and the Gulf: in the Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Syria, Iraq, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia including: "Al-Mabruz Magazine" in Algeria, "Al-Faisal" in Saudi Arabia, "Al-Jisra Al-Thaqabi Al-Qatari", the Yearbook of the College of Arts and Humanities at Kuwait University, the Yearbook of the College of Arts and Humanities at Qatar University, the Yearbook of the Research and Humanities Center at Qatar University, and the Arab Journal of the Humanities at Kuwait University.

Honoring

On April 16, 1995, University of Algiers honored him with an honorary certificate and a Science Day award. The National Algerian Students Union and the University of Algiers also awarded him with an honorary certificate on Science Day on April 16, 1996. In 1988, he refused to receive the President’s Award. Ghina was also honored by Abdul Maqsoud Khoja Cultural Dynasty, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2005.

The High School of Professors and Students in Constantine honored him at the International Forum for Knowledge and Imagination in the Maghreb Travels in Constantine on April 28-29, 2014, in recognition of his efforts in the matter.

Works

Some of Ghina's works:

short stories

• Wounds in the Winter Night, a collection of stories, the National Company for Publishing and Distribution, Algeria, 1984.
• Cloud and Eleven Stories, a collection of stories, National Book Foundation, Algeria, 1986.
• Asmaa and Abdelkhawf, a collection of stories, the National Book Foundation, Algeria, 1986.
• Popular stories from Algeria, stories, National Book Foundation, Algeria, 1986.
• The second minister avenges for the prime minister, story collection, Coloreum, Algeria, 2013.

Novels

• Shelter (Jean Dolan, National Book Foundation, Algeria, 1992.
• On the dreamy hill, House of the Nation, Algeria, 1998.
• Diary of Al-Sefarat Street, Dar Al-Ummah, Algeria, 2007.

Journeys and diaries

• Pictures ... and impressions from Hajj, Umrah and tourism trips, Dar Al-Ummah, Algeria, 1st Edition: 2011, Colorium Publishing House, Algeria, 2013.
• Positions of images and impressions, in the Saudi Diary.
• Parts from the diary of a professor in Arab universities.
• Parisian Diary.

Studies and research in travel literature

• Journeys and Travels in Modern Arab Algerian Prose, Dar Al-Ummah, Algeria, 2009.
• The Algerian writer Mohamed Al-Mansouri El-Ghissiri in his journey (I returned from the East) is a study, investigation, and analysis of the journey of the reformist thinker, along with the text of the journey (I returned from the East), the Supreme Islamic Council, Algeria, 2008, Coloreum, Algeria, 2013.
• The image of Algeria: a land, a human being and a condition, by the French traveller (Paul Udall), Thala Publishing House, Algeria, 2010.
• From Algiers (the capital) to Bou Saada, Arabization of the book of the French traveller: Paul Udall (1904), ready for publication in Coloreum, in the third volume of Integrated Works.
• Algerian Backpackers' Trends in the Modern Arab Journey, University Publications Bureau, Algeria, 1995.
• Figure and Image, In the Modern Algerian Journey, Dar Al-Ummah, Algeria, 1995.

(These last two books were based on various literary works on the journey during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and noting the image of man and place in the eye of the traveller and his thought and on his pen at the end, while recording the artistic aspects in these different literary works).

References

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