This article reports on the phenomenon of Arab authors in Israel writing in Hebrew. "Writing in Hebrew" refers to literary works originally written in Hebrew or translated from Arabic to Hebrew. The lecture examines the status of Arabic for Israeli Arabs, the scale of the phenomenon of writing in Hebrew, The Arabic for Israeli Arabs, the scale of the phenomenon of writing in Hebrew, the bilingual literary works of Arab authors in Israel, and Israeli society's acceptance of Arab authors writing in Hebrew.

     Some ten Arab novelists are currently writing in Hebrew in Israeli, an apparently growing trend among Arab authors. The choice of these Arab authors to write in Hebrew is a conscious aesthetic choice and a reflection of their natural gift for writing and mastery of Hebrew. The ten writers are: Anṭūn Šammās, Naʻim Arāydi, Sayyid Qaššuʻ, Aṭalla(h) Manṣūr, Ǧiryis Ṭannūs, Muḥammad Ġanayim,  Aosāma(h) Abu-Ġūš, Aūde(h) Bšārāt, Ayman Siksik, and Salmān Naṭūr.

Title

Language Problems & Language Planning

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Publisher Country

Netherlands

Indexing

Thomson Reuters

Impact Factor

0.286

Publication Type

Prtinted only

Volume

37

Year

2013

Pages

1-17