Sayed Kashua
Palestinian author and journalist
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| 2023 | Kashua created 'Madrasa', a comic series set in a bilingual Arabic-Hebrew school in Jerusalem. |
| 2022 | The film adaptation of 'Let It Be Morning', directed by Eran Kolirin and featuring a predominantly Palestinian cast, was completed and released. |
| 2020 | English translation of his novel 'Track Changes' was published. |
| 2018 | Kashua and his family relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, where he enrolled in the PhD program in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis and began teaching Hebrew for the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures. |
| 2017 | Production began on a film adaptation of Kashua's novel 'Let It Be Morning'. |
| November 2017 | Sayed Kashua ended his long-running Haaretz column with a farewell piece titled 'Sayed Kashua Bids Adieu: The Perils of Being an Arab-Israeli Writer', reflecting on his role as a Palestinian writer and his perspectives on Israel. |
| 2015 | Kashua created an auto-fictional drama featuring a character named Kateb, drawing on his personal experiences of life as a young Arab in Israel. |
| 2014 | Two weeks after his move, Kashua published an article in The Observer about leaving Israel. |
| 2014 | Sayed Kashua announced his move to the United States, writing about his departure in a Haaretz article and expressing skepticism about Hebrew readers' continued interest in his work. |
| 2014 | Started serving as a visiting clinical professor at the University of Illinois, a position he would hold until 2018. |
| 2014 | Participated in the Creative Writing program's bilingualism workshop at the University of Chicago and became a clinical professor in the Israel Studies program. |
| 2014 | Kashua's film 'Dancing Arabs' was released, based on his own work. |
| 2014 | Sayed Kashua moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and Chicago with his wife and three children for an academic year, beginning teaching positions through the Israeli Studies Project at the University of Illinois. |
| 2013 | 'Avoda Aravit' won multiple awards at the Israeli Academy of Film and Television awards, including Best Comedy, Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. |
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