Haidar Haidar

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Haidar Haidar (Arabic: حيدر حيدر‎) is a Syrian writer and novelist. His most famous novel is Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr which was banned in several Arab countries, and even resulted in a belated angry reaction from the clerics of al-Azhar upon reprinting in Egypt in the year 2000. The clerics issued a Fatwa banning the novel, and accused Haidar of heresy and offending Islam. Al-Azhar students staged huge protests against the novel, that eventually led to its confiscation.

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[edit] Works

[edit] Novels

  • Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr (وليمة لأعشاب البحر) A Feast for the Seaweeds, is his first and most famous novel، 1983.
  • Maraya an-Nar (مرايا النار) The Mirrors of Fire.
  • Az-Zaman al-Muhish (الزمن الموحش) The Desolate Time, 1994.
  • Shumous al-Ghajar (شموس الغجر) The Suns of Gypsies, 1996.
  • Haql Urjuwan (حقل أرجوان) A Field of Purple, 2000.
  • Marathi al-Ayyam (مراثي الأيام), The Elegies of Days, 2001.

[edit] Short stories

  • Al-Wamdh (الومض) The flash, 1970.
  • Hakaya an-Nawrass al-Muhajir (حكايا النورس المهاجر) Tales of the Migrating Seagull.
  • Ghasaq al-Aalihah (غسق الآلهة) The Dusk of Gods, 1994.
  • Al-Faiadhan (الفيضان) The Flood.
  • At-Tamawujat (التموجات) The Ripples.

[edit] Other works

  • Awraq al-Manfa (أوراق المنفى) Exile Papers, 1993.
  • Olumona (علومنا) Our Sciences.


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