AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Here we go... Since I created this section in 2005, the autobiography project hasn´t make significant progress although I haven´t seized to write autobiographical pieces and diaries elsewhere (notebooks, blog, Iraq Forum...) More that ten years have passed since I started to think about writing my autobiography. It is now time to give it a fresh and serious start. And that is what will happen from now on. I have checked my notebooks, paper files, my website and my computer and found a considerable amount of content related to my autobiography waiting to be refreshed, rewritten, improved and put in shape, i.e. made into a book. What has been missing so far is continuity, clear goal and a deadline. Deadline: December 31, 2009 A word about content and style: This autobiography will be a hybrid of diaries, portraits of people and places, reminiscences, comments, notes, precis, records of projects, ideas, plans, compositions on diverse themes, etc. It will not be a relato (story of a life) told in conventional style and genre, but rather a show of life as it is, and my life within it, with all its diversity, energy, shades, hues and nuances. Instead of a pure lineal approach and reporting, there will be a mixture of lineality and hypertextuality. Anwar Al-Ghassani Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
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Curriculum
Vitae Bio Note , Oct. 19, 2006 - Eng. Lebenslauf, Feb 27, 2002 - Ger. CV corto, Jan 1, 2005 - Sp. |
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List of Publications (German) |
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Curriculum
Vitae Oct. 19, 2006- Spanish |
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My Albums | ||||
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Mini - Bio, Apr 2, 2005 |
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Web Presence | |||
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FAQ - My Life And Work |
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Beyond The Self |
Years of A Life
Prologue
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1937
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1938
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1940
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and Structure - This is not a register of all my life events.
I am following a selective approach. I am writing only about people, places
and events of importance for my life. People who have influenced my life
are at the core of the autobio. At times, I am presenting some people
in seperate portraits embedded in the general text. Text
Quality - This is not the final version. I may describe the text
as "clean draft", that still needs a lot of work. Languages
- The texts are either in Arabic or English. I write in the language I
happen to be thinking in at the moment of writing. I will have to makte
some cross translation in the future to prepare for publishing. History
- After several failed, discontinued and abandoned attempts at writing
my autobio in the course of the past three decades, Now I am writing it
and wouldn´t abandon it. Thanks
for your patience and interest. Anwar
Al-Ghassani
Comments Corollary
To My Autobiography I
am trying to write these portraits in an unconventional way. Autobiographies
don´t lend themselves well for such a purpose. Therefore, I
am writing them not as part of the autobiography but parallel to it.
I might later incorporate them in the autobiography, but they should
be written in a way that makes them self-sufficient to stand alone
as independent works.
1941*
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1943 | 1944
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1945
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1947*|
1948
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1949
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1951
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1953 | 1954
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1955*|
1956
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1958
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1959
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1961
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1963 | 1964
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1965
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1968
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1969
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1971
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1973 | 1974
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1975
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1977 |
1978
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1979
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1981
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1983 | 1984
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1985
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1987 |
1988
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1989
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1991
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1993 | 1994
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1995
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1998
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1999
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2001
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2003 | 2004
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2005
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Miscellaneous Texts
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How
to access the content-
Click on a year to go to the corresponding page. As to texts in Arabic,
if you are not using an Arabic browser or Arabic Windows, you may need to
go to the "View/Coding" section of your browser. Select Arabic
(Windows). This should enable you to read the text.
Since I am not writing chronologically but rather at random, not all years
have content, not yet. An (*) indicates that
the year has content. Thus you don´t need to guess or try in vain.
Please visit this site frequently to read new additions to the autobio.
The autobiography (autobio) is structured according to the years. Each
year is a section (one page or more). Furthermore, the autobio includes
a prologue, an epilogue and miscellaneous texts which I will incorporate
in the final version.
I
am also adding photos if they have some illustrative value.
Future Structure - I will modify the current
structure later after I finish writing the autobio.
Portraits of People And Places
Unconventional portrait writing? What do I mean by that?
Staright-forward writing, non-chronological, without research, just
directly from my memory.
The list below includes only few people and places. Over time, I will
complete the list. For me, just creating this list is an achievement.
I feel joy at seeing the names of these wonderful people. I imagine
how exiting and rewarding would it be when I achieve writing about
each one of them and the many others who are not yet on this list.
This is not a list of all my friends, family members, people I came
to know at some period of my life or of all places I have been to.
That would be a huge list. This is a list of people and places that
have influenced me in one way or another, who were kind and generous
to me, people of great character, talent, wisdom and moral integrity.
1939
- Qal´at Salih - Um Itlayat
1941
- Qal´at
Salih - Moonlight,
Bombs And Palm Trees
1947
- Kifri, The Clarinet Player
1950
- Kirkuk - Sitt Adawiya
1955
- Tuz Khourmatu - Abdulla
Munira
Sayyed Tahir (my mother)
Sonia
Brie (my great teacher, colleague and friend)
Mahmoud
Sami Beq Jarjis (my father)
Mouayad
Shukri Ar-Rawi (poet and painter)
Badria
Sayyed Tahir (my aunt)
Wadood
Al-Sheikhli
Ahmad
Sayyed Tahir (my uncle)
Sit
Adawiya (teacher, colleague of my aunt)
Hadia
Majid (my maternal grandmother)
Zainab
Sadik (Egyptian writer and journalist)
Jarjis
Beq Al Ahmad Pasha (my paternal grandfather)
Abdulwahab
Al-Amin (writer, journalist and translator)
Shiett
Saleh (my secondary school social science teacher)
Cathrine
Shamoun (teacher and colleague, Kirkuk, Iraq)
Ali
Hussein Al-Bayati (my secondary school Arabic teacher)
Irene
Duchrow
Shahir
As-Shawi
Lidia
Vladimirova Tasseva
Mufid
Awchi
Frau
Heiduzchek (my German language teacher)
Dennis
(graphic designer, Baghdad, Iraq)
Suad
Al-Hurmuzi
Yahya
Jawad (graphic
designer, writer, Baghdad, Iraq)
Kahtan
Najati Al-Hurmuzi
Fadhil
Al-Azzawi (poet, novelist and journalist)
Sargon
Baulus (poet)
Shimran
Al-Yassiri (Abu Khateh) (Novelist and journalist)
Professor
Dr. Safa´ Al-Hafidh (writer, politician and university professor)
Ibrahim
Zair (writer, graphic designer, journalist)
Muhayyadin
El-Labbad (Graphic designer and writer)
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