Ibrahim Fawal

IBRAHIM FAWAL was born in Ramallah, Palestine. He moved to the United States to pursue his education, receiving a master's degree in film from UCLA. He worked with renowned director David Lean as the "Jordanian" first assistant director on the classic Lawrence of Arabia . Fawal permanently resides in Birmingham, Alabama, where he teaches film and literature at Birmingham-Southern College and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His first novel, On the Hills of God , won the PEN Oakland...See more

IBRAHIM FAWAL was born in Ramallah, Palestine. He moved to the United States to pursue his education, receiving a master's degree in film from UCLA. He worked with renowned director David Lean as the "Jordanian" first assistant director on the classic Lawrence of Arabia . Fawal permanently resides in Birmingham, Alabama, where he teaches film and literature at Birmingham-Southern College and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His first novel, On the Hills of God , won the PEN Oakland Award for Excellence in Literature; The Disinherited is the sequel to that work. See less