Haydar Haydar

Haydar Haydar was born in 1936 in the village of Husayn al-Bahr, on the coast of Tartous. After graduating in 1954 from the teachers' institute in Aleppo, he taught for about ten years, moved to Damascus, published his stories in the Lebanese journal al-Adab and in 1968 took part in founding the union of Arab writers. From 1970 to 1974 he taught in Annaba, Algeria; he then worked for Palestinian information services in Beirut and as a journalist in Cyprus, before returning in 1985 to his native village, where he died on 5 May 2023.

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• Novelالزمن الموحشHaydar Haydar · 1973not translated into EnglishLiterature