Celebrating My World

About the Book

The book is about celebrating beauty as I see it in nature and humans as well as trying to figure out the meaning of life in light of my personal experiences.

About the Author

The author was born in Jaffa, Palestine, in 1934. In 1948, his family moved to Ramallah, in the West Bank of what then was part of Jordan. In 1951, he went to study in the United States, and upon his return to Ramallah in 1956, he taught high school chemistry and math for two years. Then he contracted with the Sudan government to teach at the Khartoum Polytechnic in the capital, Khartoum. In 1968, he immigrated with his young family to Wichita, Kansas, where he taught at the middle school and high school levels till he retired in 1994. During this last period, he acquired his master’s degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and PhD degree from Kansas University. In the following ten years, he taught math and chemistry at the area colleges and universities. Writing poetry was a hobby that he practiced since the nineteen seventies.