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Ala Hlehel

Ala Hlehel is an Arab writer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and translator from Israel's Galilee, known for novels such as Au revoir Acre.

born 1974The novel Au revoir AcrePlays and screenplaysArabic journalism and editing

Born: 31 July 1974, Jish
Occupation: journalist, screenwriter, playwright, translator
Education: University of Haifa

Ala Hlehel was born in 1974 in Jish

Ala Hlehel was born on July 31, 1974, in the village of Jish in the Galilee.

He studied communications at the University of Haifa. At the same time he worked at the newspaper Al-Ittihad, where he founded and edited its culture and society supplement. In 2003 he studied at the screenwriting school in Tel Aviv.

From 2001 to 2005 he worked as a broadcaster and editor at 2 Arabic radio stations. He founded the Hebrew magazine Tarpezion in 2002 and the local paper Al-Madina in 2005, editing both. He also edited the weekly Fasl al-Maqal and launched the online magazine Qadita.net in 2010.

He writes plays and scripts for film and television, and his work has been presented at the Royal Court Theatre in London and the Schaubühne in Berlin. His books include the novels Au revoir Acre and Al-Sirk, and a story collection that became the play Sea Breeze at the Haifa Theatre in 2013. He teaches theater at Sapir College and the University of Haifa.

He is married with a daughter and lives in Acre.