George Jordac

George Jordac was born in 1931 in the town of Al-Jadida in the Marjayoun area, in southern Lebanon.. Marjayoun consists of two words "Marj" and "Ayoun" (springs), the place where the springs come up. It has many springs.[6] The people of the village are lovers of literacy.[7] They also have special regard and respect for Ali ibn Abi Talib. Jordac narrated that his father was mason and hung one stone upon the door of their house, written On it” There is no chivalrous except Ali ibn Abi Talib and there is no sword except Zolfaghar (Ali ibn Abi Talib’s sword)”.[8]

He finished his primary education in a school in this area. As a child, he read Nahj al-Balagha, the Diwan (poetry-collection) of Al-Mutanabbi, and Majma' al-baḥrayn by Nasif al-Yaziji. He learned about Nahj al-balagha from his brother Fuad Jordac (an engineer, philologist, and poet). Always he escaped from school and went to the side of these spring. The school principal and teachers were always looking after him and every day complained about him to his family. In his family, only his brother, Foad Jordac, supported him.[9] When he was 13 years old, George had memorized much of Nahj al-balagha and the other two books.[10] When Jordac was about 14 years old, he composed the play titled Sunrise. The play was performed at some villages in the south of Lebanon. At this time one of their friends, Mansoor Jordac, decided to send him to Europe for studying Math, but George refused. He came to Beirut and studied Arabic literature at the College of the Church. While George was only 18 years old, he wrote his first literary works that named "Wagner and woman".[7]

After he graduated from the university, George taught Arabic literature and Arabic philosophy in some schools and universities in Beirut, and at the same time, he translated and wrote some articles for Lebanese newspapers and magazines. He wrote in newspapers such as Al-jumhuri al-jadid, Al-hurriyya, al-ṣayyād, Al-shabaka, Nisā', Al-kafaḥ al-'arabī, Al-amn, and some Arabic newspapers printed in Paris, and for two years in Al-watan and Al-ra'y al-ām, both printed in Kuwait. In 1960, George made up his mind to write the encyclopedia about Ali ibn Abi Talib and named it "Ali, The Voice of Human Justice".[11]

He died on November 5, 2014.[12][13]

• Imam 'Ali, the voice of human justice, in five volumes:[1]

'Ali and human rights

'Ali and the French revolution

'Ali and Socrates

'Ali and his time

'Ali and the Arabs[12]

• Palaces and Slums
• Saladin and Richard the Lion Heart (a historical novel in about 1000 pages)
• The Arabic genius
• Girls and mirrors
• The faces of Koton
• Donkey talks
• The Paris chaos
• An adventure and thieves (a play)
• The singer
• The governor
• Imru' al-Qais and the world
• Noonday stars
• Cabarets talks
• I am oriental (poems)
• The displaced (a translation of Maxim Gorky's book)
• A translation of Mao Zedong's poems
• A translation of Maxim Gorky's My fellow.
• Wagner and the woman
• Masterpieces of Nahj al-Balagha