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Amjad Nasser (Arabic: أمجد ناصر) is the pseudonym of Yahya Numeiri al-Naimat (Arabic: يحيى النميري النعيمات), (born 1955 in al-Turra, Jordan), a London-based Jordanian writer, journalist and poet and one of the pioneers of modern Arabic poetry and Arabic prose poem. ==Biography == Nasser is the eldest son in a military oriented Bedouin family. In high school began writing poetry and was interested in politics and the Arabic language. Nasser grew up in Zarqa from the age of three where he saw firsthand the plight of the Palestinian refugees in the city and was deeply affected. He was also impressed by the Palestinian militant movement, which he joined after graduating school. He worked in the Jordanian television and print media in Amman for around two years, he then left for Lebanon in 1977, following a political crisis linked to the Palestinian organization he was a part of. In Lebanon, he joined one of the Palestinian militant underground organizations, while at the same time studying at Beirut Arab University. But he soon left his studies and devoted himself full-time to journalistic and cultural work in the Palestinian media. He worked as an editor for the cultural section of ''al-Hadaf'' magazine,〔http://www.lettre-ulysses-award.org/jury04/bio_nasser.html〕 which was founded by Ghassan Kanafani, he worked there until the Siege of Beirut in the summer of 1982, when he started to work with Palestinian radio. He then as a part of his political activity, Nasser joined the "Scientific Socialism Institute" of Aden in the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, where he taught political science, while Abdul Fattah Ismail was in power. In 1979, he published his first collection of poetry ''Madih li-Maqha Akhar'', in which Iraqi poet Saadi Yousef wrote the preface. This collection was well received by critics, especially in the Lebanese and Arab press. After the siege of Beirut in 1982, Amjad Nasser left for Cyprus, where he continued to work in the Palestinian media. In 1987, he went to London to work in the Arab media in Britain, including the daily newspaper ''Al-Quds al-Arabi'', where he edited the newspaper's culture section .〔http://arablit.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/poet-amjad-nassers-first-novel-coming-in-english-in-2013/〕〔http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/author/amjad-nasser〕 In 2014, the United States prohibited him from traveling to the country.〔http://gallatin.nyu.edu/utilities/events/2014/09/amjadnasser.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amjad Nasser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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