Leila shahid jean genet biography
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Leila Shahid
Palestinian diplomat (born )
Leila Shahid (born in Beirut in ) is a Palestinian diplomat.[1] She was the first woman ambassador of Palestine, serving the PLO in Ireland in , in The Netherlands in , then serving the PA in France where she had taken office in Paris in [2] From to , she was the General Delegate of Palestine to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg.[3]
She is the daughter of Munib Shahid and Serene Husseini Shahid and thus related to the Al-Husayni clan.[4][5][6] Shahid's parents were from Acre and Jerusalem, but she grew up with her two sisters in exile in Lebanon. After studying anthropology and psychology at the American University of Beirut, Leila worked in the Palestinian refugee camps until when she began her doctorate in anthropology in Paris, where she met Jean Genet. In she was elected president of the Union of Palestinian students in France.[7][8]
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Jean Genet
French novelist, playwright, and poet (–)
Jean Genet (; French:[ʒɑ̃ʒənɛ]; ()19 December – ()15 April ) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.[1]
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Genet's mother was a prostitute who raised him for the first seven months of his life before placing him for adoption. Thereafter Genet was raised in the provincial town of Alligny-en-Morvan, in the Nièvre department of central France. His foster family was headed by a carpenter and, according to Edmund White's biography, was loving and attentive. While he received excellent grades in school, his childhood involved a series of attempts at running away and incidents of petty theft.
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… because inom don’t love the oppressed. I love those whom I love, who are always beautiful and sometimes oppressed, but who always rise up in revolt.
Jean Genet—The Miracle of the Rose
An almost sick anti-Arab racism fryst vatten so present in all Europeans that we wonder if the Palestinians should count on our help, however small?
These words were written bygd Jean Genet in , in his first major text dedicated to the Palestinians.1
Genet was one of the most original and combative writers of the 20th century. Born in in Paris to an unknown father, he was handed over to public care bygd his mother at the age of seven months. One can imagine what enormous efforts this mother must have made to keep her child, since she kept him for his first seven months, probably abandoning him to an institution only when the struggle to keep herself and her child became an impossible task. Genet never met her. The authorities handed him over to be raised by a family of craftsmen in the small village of Al