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Constantin Zureiq

Constantin Zureiq

Constantin Zurayk (Arabic: قنسطنطين زريق; 18 April 1909 – 11 August 2000) was a prominent and influential Syrian Arab intellectual who was one of the ...
Atlas Publishing House - Syria

Atlas Publishing House - Syria

Atlas Books was established as one of the first libraries in the city of Damascus and soon became an independent publishing house in Syria. The hou...

Rowayat

Rowayat

In 2012, Rowayat روايات launched as a literary journal platforming the hybrid writer, focusing on E...

Adunis

Adunis

Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets and essayists of the Arab world. Born in Syria in 1930, he fled political persecution and settled in Lebano...
Youssef al-Hakim

Youssef al-Hakim

يوسف الحكيم (1879- 1979) رجل قانون سوري من مدينة اللاذقية، تسلّم مناصب وزارية في عهد الملك فيصل الأول وكان نائباً لرئيس المؤتمر السوري. له مذكرات قيمة...
Khairy Alzahaby

Khairy Alzahaby

Khairy Alzahaby (Arabic: خيري الذهبي;11 January 1946 – 4 July 2022) was a Syrian novelist, thinker, historian, columnist, and scenarist. Biography ...
Maria Dadouch

Maria Dadouch

Maria Dadouch (Arabic: ماريا دعدوش; born 1970 in Damascus, Syria) is a Syrian literary writer, screenwriter and novelist. She has written both Arabic ...
Ramy Al-Asheq

Ramy Al-Asheq

Palestinian Syrian author and poet

Halim Barakat

Halim Barakat

Halim Barakat (Arabic: حليم بركات December 4, 1931 - June 22, 2023 ) was a Syrian American novelist and sociologist. He was born into a Greek-Orthodox...
Golan Haji

Golan Haji

Golan Haji (Arabic: جولان حاجي; born 10. November 1977) is a Syrian Kurdish writer, poet, and translator. He has published five poetry collections in ...
Nihād Sīrīs

Nihād Sīrīs

Nihad Sirees (Arabic: نهاد سيريس; born 1950, Aleppo, Syria) is a Syrian writer of contemporary fiction and screenwriter. He was born in the northern S...
Jan Dost

Jan Dost

Jan Dost, (Arabic: جان دوست; Kurdish: Jan Dost; born 12 March 1965 in Kobanî, Syria), is a Syrian Kurdish poet, writer and translator. He has written ...
George Tomeh

George Tomeh

George Joseph Tomeh (Arabic: جورج طعمة, born 1922 in Damascus - died 2004 in Amman) was a Syrian author, diplomat, and spokesman of the Arab cause in ...
Al-Hayya

Al-Hayya

Al Hayya is a magazine that publishes literary and visual content on the works, interests and strife of women, bilingually...

Mohammad Malas

Mohammad Malas

Mohammad Malas (Arabic: محمد ملص; born 1945) is a prominent Syrian filmmaker. Malas directed several documentary and feature films that garnered inter...
Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa

Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa

Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa is a Syrian author and playwright. He has published six collections of short stories and four plays that have won him pre...

Rana Kabbani

Rana Kabbani

Rana Kabbani is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of Imperial Fictions, Letter to Christendom, and has introduced and edited The Passionate ...
Hani al-Rahib

Hani al-Rahib

Hani Muhammad-Ali al-Rahib (Arabic: هاني محمد علي الراهب, romanized: Hānī Rāhib or Hānī Rāheb; 30 November 1939 – 6 February 2000) was a Syrian noveli...
Mustafa Khalifa

Mustafa Khalifa

Mustafa Khalifa, also spelled Moustafa Khalifa (Arabic: مصطفى خليفة; born 1948 in Jarabulus, Syria) is a Syrian novelist, political writer and former ...
Yassin al-Haj Saleh

Yassin al-Haj Saleh

Yassin al-Haj Saleh (Arabic: ياسين الحاج صالح; born 1961) is a Syrian writer and political dissident. He writes on political, social and cultural subj...
Constantin Zureiq

Constantin Zureiq

Constantin Zurayk (Arabic: قنسطنطين زريق; 18 April 1909 – 11 August 2000) was a prominent and influential Syrian Arab intellectual who was one of the ...
Atlas Publishing House - Syria

Atlas Publishing House - Syria

Atlas Books was established as one of the first libraries in the city of Damascus and soon became an independent publishing house in Syria. The hou...

Contemporary Arab Literature for the Leila Miqdadi Al-Qattan Library

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Biographies and Memoirs of Arab Women

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Food books from the Levant

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The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature

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