{{Short description|Palestinian historian, poet and diplomat (born 1947)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = Elias Sanbar.jpg | birth_name = Elias Wadih Sanbar | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1947}} | birth_place = Haifa, Mandatory Palestine | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | party = | occupation = Historian, poet, essayist, translator, diplomat | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Elias Wadih Sanbar''' ({{langx|ar|إلياس صنبر}}) (born 1947) is a Palestinian historian, poet, essayist, translator and diplomat.<ref name=UNESCO2015SharjahPrize>{{cite web|url=https://en.unesco.org/news/writer-elias-sanbar-and-spain-s-biblioteca-islamica-receive-2015-unesco-sharjah-prize-arab|publisher=en.unesco.org|title=Writer Elias Sanbar and Spain's Biblioteca Islámica to receive 2015 UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture|access-date=2016-11-15}}</ref> Since 2012, he has been the Palestinian ambassador to UNESCO.<ref>Armelle Charrier, [http://www.france24.com/fr/20131107-lentretien-elias-sanbar-ambassadeur-de-palestine-unesco-histoire-heritage "Elias Sanbar, ambassadeur de Palestine auprès de l'Unesco"], France 24, 8 November 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.unesco.org/eri/cp/cp-nav.asp?country=PS&language=E Palestine], UNESCO.</ref>
During the late 1960s, Sanbar was a member of the French branch of the General Union of Palestinian Students, which was established by Mahmoud Hamshari in Paris, France.<ref name=khaha>{{cite book|author=Khadijeh Habashneh|title=Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit|series=Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema |year=2023|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=Cham|isbn=978-3-031-18858-9|page=37|translator1=Samirah Alkassim|translator2=Nadine Fattaleh|doi=10.1007/978-3-031-18858-9|s2cid=259622256|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18858-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=49 عاما على اغتيال محمود الهمشري|url=https://wafa.ps/Pages/Details/39412|access-date=16 October 2023|language=ar|work=Palestinian Information Center|date=10 January 2022}}</ref> Through the union, Hamshari organized the visit of the Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard to Jordan and Lebanon, where he met with the Palestinian fighters in 1969.<ref name=khaha/> Sanbar accompanied Godard during the visit.<ref name=khaha/>
Sanbar co-founded ''Revue d'études palestiniennes'' [''The Journal of Palestine Studies''] in 1981, and was the journal's editor-in-chief for 25 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://all4palestine.com/ModelDetails.aspx?gid=7&mid=2490&lang=en|title=Academic Figures {{!}} Elias Sanbar|website=all4palestine.com|access-date=27 November 2024}}</ref>
He has translated the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish into French.<ref name="UNESCO2015SharjahPrize" />
Sanbar's book ''The Palestinians'' was the 2015 winner of the Palestine Book Awards.<ref name="palestinebookawards">{{cite web|url=http://www.palestinebookawards.com/authors/item/elias-sanbar|publisher=palestinebookawards.com|title=Elias Sanbar - Palestine Book Awards|accessdate=2016-11-15}}</ref>
== Select works ==
* ''Palestine 1948, l’expulsion'' (1984) * ''Les Palestiniens dans le siècle'' (1994) * ''Palestine, le pays à venir'' (1996) * ''Le Lit de l’étrangère'' (2000) (translated from Mahmoud Darwish) * ''Le bien des absents'' (2001) * ''Palestiniens: la photographie d’une terre et de son peuple de 1839 à nos jours'' (2004) * ''La Dernière Guerre? Palestine, 7 octobre 2023 – 2 avril 2024'' (2024)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/05/19/elias-sanbar-palestinian-historian-netanyahu-and-his-settler-government-want-to-bury-the-chance-for-peace_6671955_23.html#|title=Elias Sanbar, Palestinian historian: 'Netanyahu and his settler government want to bury the chance for peace'|newspaper=Le Monde|interviewer=Benjamin Barthe|date=19 May 2024|access-date=27 November 2024}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
==External links== * Jordan Skinner, [http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1684-the-indians-of-palestine-an-interview-between-gilles-deleuze-and-elias-sanbar The Indians of Palestine: An interview between Gilles Deleuze and Elias Sanbar], Verso Books, 8 August 2014
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