Naim Araidi

Na`im Araidi (b. 1950; Kfar Mar`ar, Israel) still resides in his native Druze village. After completing his military service, he studied Hebrew Language and Literature at Haifa University. In 1989 he earned his PhD from Bar Ilan University for his thesis on Uri Tzvi Greenberg`s poetry.
Araidi lectures on Literature, Hebrew and Education at the Gordon College of Education, and is General Director of the Center for Arab Children`s Literature in Israel. Araidi has received the 1990 Senate of Paris Award and an Honorary Doctorate from the International Center for Poetry in the U.S. (1991). His poems have been published abroad in 14 languages.

Books Published in Hebrew

Is Love Possible (poetry), Eked, 1972 [Eich Efshar Leehov]

Compassion and Fear (poetry), Eked, 1975 [Hemlah Ve-Pahad]

Return to the Village (poetry), Am Oved, 1986 [Hazarti El Ha-Kefar]

Perhaps it`s Love (poems ), Sifriat Ma`ariv, 1990 [Ulai Ze Ahava]

In Five Dimensions (poetry), Sifriat Poalim, 1991 [Be-Hamishah Meimadim]

Fatal Baptism (novel), Bitan Publishing, 1992 [Tevilah Katlanit]

Books in Translation

Back to the Village
English:
Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, 1991
Herzlia, Levant, 1994

Collected Poems
French: Paris, Levant, 1990
Dutch: Rotterdam, Stichting, 1988

Individual poems have been published in: Arabic, Dutch, English, Hungaria, Polish, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Turkish, Greek, Russian, and Japanese.

Last updated: 04.11.2008