Rabee Jaber

Rabee Jaber (in Arabic ربيع جابر) is a Lebanese author, novelist and journalist, born in 1972 in Beirut, Lebanon. He studied Physics at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He is also editor of Afaaq (in Arabic آفاق meaning Horizons in Arabic), the weekly cultural supplement of Al-Hayat daily pan-Arab international newspaper.^[1]

Rabee Jaber's books have been translated into many languages including French and German, most notably Rahlat al Gharnati (The Journey of the Granadan) as Die Reise des Granadiners by publisher Hans Shiler, 2005), and Byretus, Underground City published by Gallimard in 2008,^[2] and some of his work is included in the anthology Beirut39, published on the occasion of Beirut as World Book Capital in 2009. The anthology contained the works of some of the best authors below 39 years in the Arab World.

In 2010, he was on the shortlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) prize also known as the Arabic Booker Prize for his book America,^[3] also adapted for the film Amreeka.

Bibliography

(Arabic name, translation in parenthesis)

• 1992: Sayyid al-Atmah (سيّد العتمة, Master of Darkness)
• 1995: Shay Aswad (شاي أسود, Black Tea)
• 1996: Al-Bayt al-Akhir (البيت الأخير, The Last House)
• 1996: Al-Farasha al-Zarqa (الفراشة الزرقاء, The Blue Moth)
• 1997: Ralf Rizqalla fi al-Mir'at (رالف رزق الله في المرآة, Ralph Rizqallah in the Looking-Glass)
• 1997: Kuntu Amiran (كُنْتُ أميراً, I was a Prince)
• 1998: Nazra Akhira ala Kin Say (نظرة أخيرة على كين ساي, A Last Look at Kin Say)
• 1999: Yusuf al-Inglizi (يوسف الإنجليزي, Yusuf the Englishman)
• 2002: Rahlat al-Gharnati (رخلة الغرناطي, The Journey of the Granadian)
  • 2005: Translated to German under the title Die Reise des Granadiners (as Rabi Jabir)
• 2003: Bayrut Madinat al-'Alam (بيروت مدينة العالم, Beirut City of the World)
• 2005: Byretus Madinat Taht al-Ard (بيريتوس: مدينة تحت الأرض, Byretus Underground City)
• 2005: Bayrut Madinat al-'Alam 2 (بيروت مدينة العالم 2, Beirut City of the World: Volume Two)
• 2006: Takrir Mehlis(تقرير مهليس, The Mehlis' Report)
• 2007: Bayrut Madinat al-'Alam 3 (بيروت مدينة العالم, Beirut City of The World: Volume Three)
• 2009: America (أميركا, America)
• 2010: The Druze of Belgrade (دروز بلغراد)
• 2011: Birds of the Holiday Inn (طيور الهوليداي إن)

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