عز الدين المناصرة

Izz al-Din al-Manasra is a Palestinian poet. He was born in Hebron in 1946 and obtained in 1981 a Ph.D in Slavic literature from the Bulgarian Academy of Science. He was the Director of cultural programs in Jordanian radio, editor of Palestinian Affairs magazine, and worked as a professor of comparative literature in Constantine University in Algeria. Al-Manasra has been the Secretary general of the Arab Contemporary Literary Society since 1984. He has published many critical studies and many volumes of poetry. He is regarded as one of the foremost Palestinian poets of protest and resistance. He participated in the Palestinian Cultural Spring held in France in 1997.One of his main areas of interest has been reviving the style and themes of Canaanite poetry. He lives in Jordan. His name can also be transliterated as Izzedine Manassira