Ibrahim Fawal was born in Ramallah, Palestine. He moved to the United States to pursue his education, receiving a master’s degree in film from UCLA. He worked with renowned director David Lean as the “Jordanian” first assistant director on the classic Lawrence of Arabia. Fawal lives in Birmingham, Alabama, where he taught film and literature at Birmingham-Southern College and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. For his doctorate at Oxford University he concentrated on an examination of Arab culture through the cinema of Youssef Chahine, the foremost film director of the Arab world. His dissertation, Youssef Chahine, was published by the British Film Institute. On the Hills of God is Fawal’s first novel, and was also published in Arabic and was translated into German and Indonesian. It won the PEN Oakland Award for Excellence in Literature.
Ibrahim Fawal was born in Ramallah, Palestine. He moved to the United States to pursue his education, receiving a master’s degree in film from UCLA. He worked with renowned director David Lean as the “Jordanian” first assistant director on the classic Lawrence of Arabia. Fawal lives in Birmingham, Alabama, where he taught film and literature at Birmingham-Southern College and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. For his doctorate at Oxford University he concentrated on an examination of Arab culture through the cinema of Youssef Chahine, the foremost film director of the Arab world. His dissertation, Youssef Chahine, was published by the British Film Institute. On the Hills of God is Fawal’s first novel, and was also published in Arabic and was translated into German and Indonesian. It won the PEN Oakland Award for Excellence in Literature.