Salman Masalha (Arabic: سلمان مصالحة, Hebrew: סלמאן מצאלחה; born November 4, 1953) is an Israeli poet, writer, essayist and translator.
[3][4] Masalha was born on November 4, 1953, to a Druze family in Maghar, a village in the Galilee in northern Israel.
Masalha studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds a Ph.D. degree in Arabic literature.
Some of his Arabic and Hebrew poems have been performed to music and recorded by leading Israeli and Palestinian musicians, including Marwan Abado, Kamilya Jubran, Micha Shitrit, and Yair Dalal.
In 2006, Masalha was awarded the Israel's President's Prize for Literature for his collection of Hebrew poetry In Place.