Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920–1994) (Arabic: جبرا ابراهيم جبرا) was a Palestinian Syriac-Orthodox author, poet, artist and intellectual, born in Bethlehem at the time of the British Mandate. Educated in Jerusalem and, later, at Cambridge University, he settled in Iraq following the events of 1948. He worked as an artist, art critic, art historian, poet and intellectual.