Rejae Busailah
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Rejae Yassin Busailah (Born 1929 – Death December 6, 2020 [1]) was a Palestinian refugee academic, poet and writer who became a two-year-old Kviva after contracting sore eyes.[2][3][4]
Biography and scientific attainment[edit]
He was born in Jerusalem in 1929, and according to other sources in 1928. He became blind and two years old after contracting sore eyes. He received his primary education at the Elementary School for the Blind in Hebron, which was headed by Sabhi Al-Dajani at the time, and at the Secondary School for the Amiriyah High School in Jaffa, where he received the Metro Certificate. His family emigrated from Ladd to Nablus as a result of the 1948 Nakba War, where Zionist militias captured the city on 11 July 1948.[5]
He studied English language and literature at the University of Fouad I (today's Cairo University) and received his bachelor's degree in 1953, his master's degree in special education from Hunter College [6]. He also received a doctorate degree in English literature from New York University.[7]
Work[edit]
He attended his family in Ramallah, studied at the school for the blind, which had moved to Beerah City. He also worked in Kuwait as a teacher and founded a school for the blind.[6]
He worked as a teacher at Indiana Kokomo University of America for 30 years until his retirement in 1994 and as a visiting professor at Birzeit University of Palestine and Mohammed V University of Morocco.[7]
Writings[edit]
Published several publications, some of which were published:[6]
The Fall of Lydda.[8]
In the Land of My Child: A Palestinian Boyhound.[9][7]
Poems of a Palestinian Boyhood.
The Big Exam.
We are human too.
Published hundreds of literary and critical articles in American literary journals.[6]
"Palestine Book" Award 2018 by Middle East Monitor UK for Best New Book on Palestine published in English.[10][5]
Death[edit]
He died in Indianapolis, the capital city of Indiana on December 6, 2020, CE 21, 1442, at the age of 91,[5]where he lay at St. Vincent's Indianapolis Hospital.[8][11]
Lebanese storyteller and novelist Elias Khoury told him about his Facebook account: "My big brother and a friend of the torment trip at LD. The poet, the professor, the blind, struggling intellectual who saw what we couldn't see. the son of Palestine, whom he loved with the light of his heart and mind, and the most beautiful Palestinian biographer. My beautiful goodness died in American exile, leaving us with his love and words and a vault of the light of his vision. Please say good - bye, "as called by the Palestinian Studies Foundation.[11]
References[edit]
- ↑ "رجائي بصيلة .... وداعاً (١٩٢٩ – ٢٠٢٠) | مؤسسة الدراسات الفلسطينية". web.archive.org. 2020-12-08. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ↑ "مدينة اللد: موقعا وشهرة وتاريخا ونضالا - فار، مصطفى محمد - كتب Google". web.archive.org. 2020-12-08. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ↑ "شبكة العودة الإخبارية - كاتب فلسطيني يُطلق كتابه في بيروت بيوم النكبة الفلسطينية". web.archive.org. 2020-12-08. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ↑ "قراءة في كتاب رجائي بصيلة: في أرض ميلادي: طفولة فلسطينية. | Museum". web.archive.org. 2020-12-08. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Rejae Busailah". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Busailah, Reja-e (1981). "The Fall of Lydda, 1948: Impressions and Reminiscences". Arab Studies Quarterly. 3 (2): 123–151. ISSN 0271-3519.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Busailah, Reja-e (1981). "The Fall of Lydda, 1948: Impressions and Reminiscences". Arab Studies Quarterly. 3 (2): 123–151. ISSN 0271-3519.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "جريدة الأخبار". web.archive.org. 2018-07-17. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ↑ "جائزة «كتاب فلسطين» وتفنيد الرواية الصهيونية". القدس العربي. 2018-12-03. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ↑ "Dr. Reja-e Busailah". Peru Tribune. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "رحيل رجائي بصيلة: تسعون عاماً في مقاومة الظلام". web.archive.org. 2020-12-12. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
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