Abdul Rahman Munif

Abdul Rahman Munif was born in Amman on 29 May 1933, to a Saudi father and an Iraqi mother. He studied law in Baghdad and Cairo, then defended a thesis on oil economics in Belgrade. A member of the Baath Party, which he later left, he worked in the oil industry and edited a specialist journal, before settling in Syria in the seventies to devote himself to writing. He had been stripped of his Saudi nationality in 1963, for his political activities according to Al Jazeera. He died in Damascus on 24 January 2004.

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