Amjad Nasser

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Amjad Nasser (Arabic: أمجد ناصر), known with the pseudonym of Yahya Numeiri al-Naimat (Arabic: يحيى النميري النعيمات), (1955 – 31 October 2019) was a London-based Jordanian writer, journalist and poet and one of the pioneers of modern Arabic poetry and Arabic prose poem. Born in al-Turra, Jordan, Nasser was the eldest son in a military oriented Bedouin family. In high school he began writing poetry and was interested in politics and the Arabic language. Nasser grew up in Zarqa from the age of three where he saw first hand the plight of the Palestinian refugees in the city and was deeply affected. He was also impressed by the Palestinian militant movement, which he joined after graduating school. He worked in the Jordanian television and print media in Amman for around two years. He then left for Lebanon in 1977, following a political crisis linked to the Palestinian organization he was a part of, the Jordanian Revolutionary People's Party. In Lebanon, he joined one of the Palestinian militant underground organizations, while at the same time studying at Beirut Arab University. But he soon left his studies and devoted himself full-time to journalistic and cultural work in the Palestinian media. He worked as an editor for the cultural section of al-Hadaf magazine, which was founded by Ghassan Kanafani, he worked there until the Siege of Beirut in the summer of 1982, when he started to work with Palestinian radio.