Abd al-Salam al-Ujayli

Abd al-Salam al-Ujayli was born in Raqqa in 1918 or 1919, the city then having no birth register, and his maternal grandfather composed Bedouin poems. He did his secondary studies in Aleppo and medicine in Damascus until 1945, then opened a practice in his home town and kept it until the end. Elected deputy for Raqqa as early as 1947, the following year he left to fight in Palestine in the Army of Salvation, and in 1962 held the portfolios of Information, Foreign Affairs and then Culture. A great traveller, he died at home in April 2006 after asking that no ceremony be held for him.

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• Novelقلوب على الأسلاكAbd al-Salam al-Ujayli · 1974not translated into EnglishLiterature