Elias Khoury

Elias Khoury was a Lebanese novelist and advocate of the Palestinian cause, whose books include Gate of the Sun, White Masks, Yalo and As Though She Were Sleeping. Gate of the Sun won the Prize of Palestine in 2000, and he later received the Al Owais Award for fiction in 2007. From 1993 to 2009 he edited Al-Mulhaq, a weekly cultural supplement, and he taught at universities in several countries while also writing three plays and two screenplays. The struggles of Palestinians under occupation run through much of his fiction.