# Ali Ashour Al-Jaffar

Ali Ashour Al-Jaffar (Arabic: علي عاشور الجعفر) is a writer and academic of Kuwaiti citizenship, who teaches at the College of Education at Kuwait University.

## His life

Ali Ashour Al-Jaffar was born on 15 December 1963 in Kuwait. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Arabic Language Teaching Methods at the College of Education at Kuwait University in 1987, and a Master's in Education at the Primary Level at Indiana University Bloomington in the United States of America in 1995, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the same university in 1998.

## Career

* Instructor at Kuwait University from 1998 to May 2006.
* Director of the Centre for Practical Education at the College of Education "Kuwait University" from 2004 to 2006.
* Director of the Master's Program in the Curriculum Department from 2010 to 2011.
* Professor, Department of Curricula and Teaching Methods, College of Education, Kuwait University, from 2006 until now.
He is the editor-in-chief of Journal of Children, and owner of the “storypedia” website, which publishes the summaries of children's stories in the Arab world.

## Books

Ashour published three collections of short stories for children by Dar Al Hadaek: "My Sister Sees by Smell", "The Square Story", and "We Make a House of Dust". His latest publication, in 2020, entitled: "The Beautiful Surprised Object: A Reading in Children's Poetic Fiction". And he has three translations of books issued by The Children of Reggio.
| Book | Number of pages | Year | Publisher | Language | International number |
| My sister sees by smell (Arabic: 'ukhti turaa bialraayiha) | 24 | January 1, 2013 | Dar Al Hadaek | Arabic | 139789953464923 |
| Children's Theater in Kuwait: Between semantic diversity, heritage and directing (Arabic: masrah altifl fi alkuayt "bayn altanawue aldalalii walturath wal'ukhraji") | 647 | January 1, 2007 | Dar Al-Wafaa for printing and publishing | Arabic | |
| We make a house of dust (Arabic: nasnae bytaan min alghubar) | 52 | December 23, 2019 | Dar Al Hadaek | Arabic | 9786144391747 |

## Awards

Ali Ashour Al-Jafar won the award for the best doctoral thesis at the level of the Curriculum Department at the College of Education, Indiana University - Bloomington, United States in 1998. He also won the State Prize in 2016 in the field of Education for the book “Children’s Literature and Politics: Diversity and Difference.”

## Reverences

* 1 2 3 "tanwair | مجلّة فكريّة تربويّة فصليّة محكمة تصدر عن مركز نقد وتنوير للدراسات الإنسانية. دراسات تربوية اجتماعية نفسية وثقافية، قضايا المجتمع الفكرية والتربوية مقاربات نقدية في التربية والمجتمع". 2021-01-25. Archived from the original on 2021-01-25. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
* ↑ "قصص الاطفال". 2021-06-03. Archived from the original on 2021-06-03. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
* ↑ "تحميل كتب علي عاشور الجعفر pdf - مكتبة نور". 2021-06-09. Archived from the original on 2021-06-09. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
* ↑ Ǧaʿfar, ʿalī ʿāšūr al-; عاشور, جعفر، علي (2017). قصة مربع (in Arabic). دار الحدائق. ISBN 978-614-439-111-2. OCLC 1138706636.
* ↑ الجعفر, علي عاشور (2014). أختي ترى بالرائحة (in Arabic). Dar al Hadaek. ISBN 978-9953-464-92-3. OCLC 1158889037.
* ↑ مسرح الطفل في الكويت (in Arabic). 2007. OCLC 1103841847.
* ↑ نصنع بيتا من الغبار (in Arabic). 2019. OCLC 1229993886.
* ↑ "أ.د.علي عاشور الجعفر - النقش". 2021-06-09. Archived from the original on 2021-06-09. Retrieved 2021-11-29.