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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...

Siham al-Shaashaa

Siham Al Shashaa is a Syrian poet. She studied Arabic literature at Damascus University. She participated in many cultural festivals around the Ara...

Mohammad Malas

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

Farouk Mardam-Bey

فاروق مردم بك (1944 -) هو مؤرخ وناشر ومترجم سوري فرنسي. مراجع بوابة أدب بوابة أعلام بوابة سوريا بوابة فرنسا

Constantin Zureiq

Constantin Zurayk (Arabic: قنسطنطين زريق; 18 April 1909 – 11 August 2000) was a prominent Syrian Arab intellectual who was one of the first to pione...

Rosa Yaseen Hasan

Rosa Yaseen Hassan (Arabic: روزا ياسين حسن) is a Syrian novelist and writer. She was born in Damascus in 1974 and studied architecture at university. ...

Mariam Farah

سورية مقيمة في بيروت منذ العام 2012. مترجمة ومدققة لغوية ومحررة وكاتبة قصص أطفال. صدر لها عدة قصص أطفال في ...

Al-Hayya

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

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...

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 ...

Fadi Koshakji

فادي قوشقجي كاتب وروائي سوري تخرج من جامعة دمشق - كلية الهندسة الإلكترونية عام 1989 م. كما عمل مدرساً في المعهد المتوسط لهندسة الكمبيوتر التابع ل جامع...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Mansour al-Omari

Mansour al-Omari (Arabic: منصور العمري, born 1979) is a Syrian journalist and human rights defender, he contributed to the documentation of human righ...

Khairy Alzahaby

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

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...

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

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...

Siham al-Shaashaa

Siham Al Shashaa is a Syrian poet. She studied Arabic literature at Damascus University. She participated in many cultural festivals around the Ara...

Contemporary Arab Literature for the Leila Miqdadi Al-Qattan Library

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🇸🇾 Syria

Authors, books, publishers, magazines, and reading lists from and about Syria

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Nihād Sīrīs

Siham al-Shaashaa

Mohammad Malas

Farouk Mardam-Bey

Constantin Zureiq

Rosa Yaseen Hasan

Mariam Farah

Al-Hayya

Adunis

George Tomeh

Fadi Koshakji

Golan Haji

Atlas Publishing House - Syria

Rowayat

Jan Dost

Mansour al-Omari

Khairy Alzahaby

Halim Barakat

Hani al-Rahib

Mustafa Khalifa

Nihād Sīrīs

Siham al-Shaashaa

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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