Biography
Anton Shammas was one of six children born to Hanna Shammas, a Palestinian Christian barber and shoemaker, and a Lebanese mother who moved to Fassuta in 1936 to teach French at the local girls' school. In 1962, the family moved to Haifa where Shammas studied in an integrated Jewish-Arab school. In 1968, Shammas moved to Jerusalem and studied English literature and art history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Shammas now lives in the United States, where he is a professor of Middle Eastern literature at the University of Michigan.
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