Waleed Saif (Arabic: وليد سيف; born in 1948) is a Palestinian-Jordanian poet, short storywriter, television drama writer, playwright, critic,[1] researcher, and academic.
[2][3] Walid Saif was born in Tulkarem city in the West Bank, Palestine, and received a BA in Arabic language and literature from the University of Jordan.
[citation needed] Saif worked since 1987 as a director of educational production at Al-Quds Open University, which helped set up its preparatory programs.
Besides academia, he employed his background by turning to nonfiction drama, compiling and screenwriting works about many major Arab and Muslim events and figures.
One of his books, The Long Path, was adapted in a TV series depicting the lives of successive generations of a Palestinian farming family during and after the Nakba.