He was born in 1933 at Al-Dawayima, near Al Khalil (Hebron), in Palestine, and currently lives and works in Amman.
In the 2008 film Salt of this Sea, Al-Dawayima is the village which Emad, the male protagonist, hails from.
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The village is often featured in the works of Palestinian artist Abdul Hay Mosallam who was expelled from it in 1948.