Adib Nahwi

Adib Nahwi was born in Aleppo, where he went to school, and studied law in Damascus. Having left for the Sorbonne in the early fifties, he had to return, pursued by the French authorities for his support of the Algerian revolution. His first story collections appeared as early as 1948, and one of his stories won third prize in a competition judged by Taha Hussein and Tawfiq al-Hakim. A supporter of union with Egypt, he led the resistance in Aleppo to the secession of 1961, which sentenced him to death in absentia. Minister of Justice for nearly eleven years under Hafez al-Assad, he died in 1998.

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• NovelجومبيAdib Nahwi · 1965not translated into EnglishLiterature