Syrian literature, the Glossary

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1. 249 relations: A Feast for the Seaweeds, Abdallah Marrash, Absurdist fiction, Abu Khalil Qabbani, Adonis (poet), Al Karmel, Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi, Al-Ba'ath, Al-Farazdaq, Al-Hayat, Al-Ma'arri, Al-Qaeda, Al-Tha'alibi, Aladdin, Alawites, Albert Hourani, Aleppo, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, American University of Beirut, Antarah ibn Shaddad, Anthology, Antoine Galland, Arab Academy of Damascus, Arab nationalism, Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Arab world, Arab Writers Union, Arabic, Arabic literature, Arabic poetry, ArabLit, Armenians in Syria, Art for art's sake, As-Safir, Assyrian people, Authoritarianism, Autobiography, Émigré, Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction), Baybars, Beirut, Beirut 75, Bertolt Brecht, Biography, Boston University, Cheers to You, Nation, Children's literature, Christianity in Syria, Circassians in Syria, Colette Khoury, ... Expand index (199 more) »

2. 20th-century literature
3. 21st-century literature

A Feast for the Seaweeds

A Feast for the Seaweeds (translit) is a 1983 novel by the Syrian novelist Ḥaidar Ḥaidar.

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Abdallah Marrash

Abdallah bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (Arabic: عبد الله بن فتح الله بن نصر الله مرّاش,; 14 May 1839. 17 January 1900) was a Syrian writer involved in various Arabic-language newspaper ventures in London and Paris.

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Absurdist fiction

Absurdist fiction is a genre of novels, plays, poems, films, or other media that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value.

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Abu Khalil Qabbani

Abu Khalil Qabbani (أبو خليل القباني / ALA-LC: Abū Khalīl al-Qabbānī; 1835–1902) was a Syrian playwright and composer of Turkish origin.

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Adonis (poet)

Ali Ahmad Said Esber (North Levantine:; born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis (أدونيس), is a Syrian poet, essayist and translator.

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Al Karmel

Al Karmel was a literary magazine which existed between 1981 and 2008.

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Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi

Ghiyath ibn Ghawth ibn al-Salt ibn Tariqa al-Taghlibi commonly known as al-Akhtal (The Loquacious), was one of the most famous Arab poets of the Umayyad period.

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Al-Ba'ath

Al-Baʻth (lit) is an Arabic language newspaper published by the Baʻth Party in Syria and other Arab countries and territories, including Lebanon and Palestine.

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Al-Farazdaq

Hammam Ibn Ghalib '''Al-Tamimi''' (همامبن غالب; born 641 AD/20 AH died 728–730 AD/110-112 AH), more commonly known as Al-Farazdaq (الفرزدق) or Abu Firas, was a 7th-century Arab poet and orator who was born in the Rashidun Caliphate of Umar and flourished during the Umayyad Caliphate.

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Al-Hayat

Al-Hayat (الحياة Life) was a London-based, pan-Arab newspaper owned by Saudi Prince Khalid bin Sultan, that had a circulation estimated over 200,000.

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Al-Ma'arri

Abu al-Ala Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Sulayman al-Tanukhi al-Ma'arri (December 973May 1057), also known by his Latin name Abulola Moarrensis; was an Arab philosopher, poet, and writer from Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Syria.

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Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.

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Al-Tha'alibi

Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Thaʿālibī (أبو منصور الثعالبي، عبد الملك بن محمد بن إسماعيل) (961–1038), was a writer famous for his anthologies and collections of epigrams.

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Aladdin

Aladdin (ʻAlāʼu d-Dīn/ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn,, ATU 561, 'Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale.

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Alawites

The Alawites, also known as Nusayrites, are an Arab ethnoreligious group that live primarily in the Levant and follow Alawism, a religious sect that splintered from early Shi'ism as a ghulat branch during the ninth century.

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Albert Hourani

Albert Habib Hourani (ألبرت حبيب حوراني Albart Ḥabīb Ḥūrānī; 31 March 1915 – 17 January 1993) was a liberal Lebanese British historian, specialising in the history of the Middle East and Middle Eastern studies.

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Aleppo

Aleppo (ﺣَﻠَﺐ, ALA-LC) is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous governorate of Syria.

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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (علي بابا والأربعون لصا) is a folk tale in Arabic added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab.

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American University of Beirut

The American University of Beirut (AUB; al-Jāmiʿa l-Amērkiyya fī Bayrūt) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon.

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Antarah ibn Shaddad

Antarah ibn Shaddad al-Absi (Arabic: عنترة بن شداد العبسي), ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād al-ʿAbsī; AD 525–608), also known as ʿAntar, was a pre-Islamic Arab knight and poet, famous for both his poetry and his adventurous life. His chief poem forms part of the Mu'allaqāt, the collection of seven "hanging odes" legendarily said to have been suspended in the Kaaba at Mecca.

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Anthology

In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors.

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Antoine Galland

Antoine Galland (4 April 1646 – 17 February 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of One Thousand and One Nights, which he called Les mille et une nuits.

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Arab Academy of Damascus

The Arab Academy of Damascus (مجمع اللغة العربية بدمشق) is the oldest academy regulating the Arabic language, established in 1918 during the reign of Faisal I of Syria.

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Arab nationalism

Arab nationalism (al-qawmīya al-ʿarabīya) is a political ideology asserting that Arabs constitute a single nation.

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Arab states of the Persian Gulf

The Arab states of the Persian Gulf or the Arab Gulf states (دول الخليج العربي) refers to a group of Arab states bordering the Persian Gulf.

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Arab world

The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.

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Arab Writers Union

The Arab Writers Union (ar.: اتحاد الكتاب العرب) is an association of Arab writers, founded in 1969, in Damascus, Syria, at the initiative of a group of Arab writers including Syrian novelist Hanna Mina. Syrian literature and Arab Writers Union are Arabic literature.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Arabic literature

Arabic literature (الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language.

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Arabic poetry

Arabic poetry (الشعر العربي ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy) is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature. Syrian literature and Arabic poetry are Arabic literature.

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ArabLit

ArabLit is an online magazine for information about translations of Arabic literature into English. Syrian literature and ArabLit are Arabic literature.

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Armenians in Syria

The Armenians in Syria are Syrian citizens of either full or partial Armenian descent.

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Art for art's sake

Art for art's sake—the usual English rendering of, a French slogan from the latter half of the 19th century—is a phrase that expresses the philosophy that 'true' art is utterly independent of any and all social values and utilitarian function, be that didactic, moral, or political.

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As-Safir

As-Safir (lit) was a leading Arabic-language daily newspaper in Lebanon.

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Assyrian people

Assyrians are an indigenous ethnic group native to Mesopotamia, a geographical region in West Asia.

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Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.

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Autobiography

An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life.

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Émigré

An émigré is a person who has emigrated, often with a connotation of political or social exile or self-exile.

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Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction)

The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (Ḥizb al-Ba‘th al-‘Arabī al-Ishtirākī; meaning "resurrection"), also referred to as the pro-Syrian Ba'ath movement, is a neo-Ba'athist political party with branches across the Arab world.

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Baybars

Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari (الملك الظاهر ركن الدين بيبرس البندقداري; 1223/1228 – 1 July 1277), commonly known as Baibars or Baybars and nicknamed Abu al-Futuh (أبو الفتوح), was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, of Turkic Kipchak origin, in the Bahri dynasty, succeeding Qutuz.

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Beirut

Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

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Beirut 75

Beirut 75 (1975) is the first full-length novel written by Syrian author, Ghada Al-Samman.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Biography

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.

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Boston University

Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Cheers to You, Nation

Cheers to You, Nation (كاسك يا وطن) pronounced "Kasak Ya Watan" is a Syrian, sociopolitical tragicomic play performed in 1978.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.

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Christianity in Syria

Christians in Syria made up about 10% of the pre-war Syrian population.

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Circassians in Syria

Circassians in Syria refer to the Circassian diaspora that settled in Syria (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in the 19th century.

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Colette Khoury

Colette Khoury (كوليت خوري, also written as Kulit Khuri, Colette al al-Khuri, Colette Khuri) is a Syrian novelist and poet, born in 1931, who is also the granddaughter of former Syrian Prime Minister Faris al-Khoury.

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Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.

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Culture of Syria

Syria is a traditional society with a long cultural history.

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Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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Damascus

Damascus (Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.

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Damascus University

The Damascus University (translit) is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus, with campuses in other Syrian cities.

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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.

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Death Is Hard Work

Death Is Hard Work is a novel written by Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa.

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Dima Wannous

Dima Wannous (ديمة ونوس; born 1982 in Damascus, Syria) is a Syrian literary writer and journalist.

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Diplomat

A diplomat (from δίπλωμα; romanized diploma) is a person appointed by a state, intergovernmental, or nongovernmental institution to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.

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Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death.

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Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.

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Dramaturge

A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults authors, and does public relations work.

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Duraid Lahham

Duraid Lahham (دريد لحام; in Roman transliteration, sometimes spelled "Durayd Lahham") is a leading Syrian comedian and director born 1934 in Damascus, Syria.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Egyptian Arabic

Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian (اللغة العامية المصرية.), or simply Masri (also Masry) (مَصرى), is the most widely spoken vernacular Arabic variety in Egypt.

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Egyptian literature

Egyptian literature traces its beginnings to ancient Egypt and is some of the earliest known literature.

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Elisabeth Jaquette

Elisabeth Jaquette is an American translator of modern Arabic literature.

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Encyclopaedia of Islam

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI) is a reference work that facilitates the academic study of Islam.

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Erotic art

Erotic art is a broad field of the visual arts that includes any artistic work intended to evoke arousal.

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Essay

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.

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Existentialism

Existentialism is a family of views and forms of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence.

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Exoticism

Exoticism (from exotic) is a trend in art and design, whereby artists became fascinated with ideas and styles from distant regions and drew inspiration from them.

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Experimental literature

Experimental literature is a genre of literature that is generally "difficult to define with any sort of precision." It experiments with the conventions of literature, including boundaries of genres and styles; for example, it can be written in the form of prose narratives or poetry, but the text may be set on the page in differing configurations than that of normal prose paragraphs or in the classical stanza form of verse. Syrian literature and Experimental literature are 20th-century literature.

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Fadi Azzam

Fadi Azzam (Arabic: فادي عزام; born 1973, As-Suwayda, Syria) is a Syrian novelist and poet.

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Faraj Bayrakdar

Faraj Bayrakdar (born 1951 in Tir Maaleh near Homs, Syria) is a Swedish-Syrian poet and writer.

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Fawwaz Haddad

Fawwaz Haddad (Arabic: فواز حدّاد) (born 1947) is a Syrian novelist.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

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Fiction

Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.

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Francis Marrash

Francis bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (Arabic: فرنسيس بن فتح الله بن نصر الله مرّاش,; 1835,. 1836,. or 1837 – 1873 or 1874), also known as Francis al-Marrash or Francis Marrash al-Halabi, was a Syrian scholar, publicist, writer and poet of the Nahda or the Arab Renaissance, and a physician.

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Free verse

Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech.

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French literature

French literature generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French.

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Gender

Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity.

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Genre

Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.

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Ghada al-Samman

Ghadah Al-Samman (غادة السمّان; born 1942) is a Syrian writer, journalist and novelist born in Damascus in 1942 to a prominent and conservative Damascene family.

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Ghalia Qabbani

Ghalia Qabbani is a Syrian writer and journalist.

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Ghamar Mahmoud

Ghamar Mahmoud, (Arabic: غمار محمود) a Syrian writer and novelist, was born in 1980.

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Golan Haji

Golan Haji (born 10. November 1977) is a Syrian Kurdish writer, poet, and translator.

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Haidar Haidar

Haidar Haidar (حيدر حيدر; 1936 – 5 May 2023) was a Syrian writer and novelist.

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Haitham Hussein

Haitham Hussein (هيثمحسين; born November 16, 1978) is a Syrian-Kurdish novelist, literary critic and journalist.

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Hamida Nana

Hamida Na'na (born 1946) is a Syrian writer and journalist.

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Hanna Diyab

Antun Yusuf Hanna Diyab (Anṭūn Yūsuf Ḥannā Diyāb; born circa 1688) was a Syrian Maronite writer and storyteller.

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Hanna Mina

Hanna Mina (حنا مينة; 9 March 1924 – 21 August 2018) was a Syrian novelist, described in Literature from the "Axis of Evil" as the country's "most prominent" writer.

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Hayfa Baytar

Hayfa Basil al-Baytar (هيفاء باسيل البيطار,; also transliterated:Haifa Bitar; born 1960) is a Syrian novelist, short story writer and ophthalmologist.

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Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts (Damascus)

The Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts (al-Maʿhad al-ʿĀlī li l-Funūn al-Masraḥīyah) (HIDA), was founded in Damascus, Syria, in 1977 by academics such as the playwright Saadallah Wannous, theatre critic Ghassan al-Maleh and professor of theatre at Damascus University, Hannan Kassab Hassan.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it.

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History of Syria

The history of Syria covers events which occurred on the territory of the present Syrian Arab Republic and events which occurred in the region of Syria.

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Ibn Abi Usaybi'a

Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa Muʾaffaq al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Al-Qāsim Ibn Khalīfa al-Khazrajī (ابن أبي أصيبعة‎; 1203–1270), commonly referred to as Ibn Abi Usaibia (also Usaibi'ah, Usaybea, Usaibi`a, Usaybiʿah, etc.), was a physician from Syria in the 13th century CE.

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Ibtisam Ibrahim Teresa

Ibtisam Ibrahim Teresa (Arabic: ابتسامابراهيمتريسى) (born 1959) is a Syrian novelist and short story writer.

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Imad al-Din al-Isfahani

Muhammad ibn Hamid (translit; 1125 – 20 June 1201), commonly known as Imad al-Din al-Isfahani (عماد الدین اصفهانی), was a historian, scholar, and rhetorician.

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In Praise of Hatred

In Praise of Hatred is the third novel by the Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa.

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International Prize for Arabic Fiction

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) (الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية), also known as "the Arabic Booker", is regarded as the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Iraqis

Iraqis (العراقيون) are people who originate from the country of Iraq.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Jan Dost

Jan Dost, (Kurdish: Jan Dost; born 12 March 1965 in Kobanî, Syria), is a Syrian Kurdish poet, writer and translator.

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Jan Pêt Khorto

Jan Pêt Khorto (born 1986) is a Syrian Kurdish poet, writer, and public speaker.

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Jarir ibn Atiyah

Jarir ibn Atiyah al-Khatfi Al-Tamimi (جرير بن عطية الخطفي التميمي) was an Arab poet and satirist.

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Jordan

Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.

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Katara Prize for Arabic Novel

The Katara Prize for Arabic Novel is an Arabic literary prize based in Qatar.

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Khairy Alzahaby

Khairy Alzahaby (خيري الذهبي; 11 January 1946 – 4 July 2022) was a Syrian novelist, historian, columnist, and scenarist.

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Khaled Khalifa

Khaled Khalifa (خالد خليفة; 1 January 1964 – 30 September 2023) was a Syrian novelist, screenwriter, and poet.

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Khaled Mattawa

Khaled Mattawa (خالد مطاوع; born 1964) is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English.

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Kitab al-I'tibar

Kitab al-I'tibar (كتاب الاعتبار, The Book of Learning by Example) is the autobiography of Usama ibn-Munqidh, an Arab Syrian diplomat, soldier of the 12th century, hunter, poet and nobleman.

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Kurds in Syria

The Kurdish population of Syria is the country's largest ethnic minority, usually estimated at around 10% of the Syrian population Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria, constituting around 10 per cent of the population – around 2 million of the pre-conflict population of around 22 million.

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Latakia

Latakia (translit; Syrian pronunciation) is the principal port city of Syria and capital city of the Latakia Governorate located on the Mediterranean coast.

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Lebanese Civil War

The Lebanese Civil War (الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.

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Lina Hawyani al-Hasan

Lina Hawyani al-Hasan (لينا هوياني الحسن) (born 1975) is a Syrian novelist, journalist and writer.

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Literacy

Literacy is the ability to read and write.

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Literary criticism

A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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Literary theory

Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis.

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Literature from the "Axis of Evil"

Literature from the "Axis of Evil" is an anthology of short stories, poems and excerpts from novels by twenty writers from seven countries, translated into English (often for the first time), and published by Words Without Borders in 2006.

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Liwaa Yazji

Liwaa Yazji, alternative spelling Liwaa Yazaji, (born 1977 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Syrian filmmaker, playwright, TV screenwriter, dramaturge and poet.

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Maarat al-Numan

Maarat al-Numan (Maʿarrat an-Nuʿmān), also known as al-Ma'arra, is a city in northwestern Syria, south of Idlib and north of Hama, with a population of about 58,008 before the Civil War (2004 census).

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Maha Hassan

Maha Hassan (born in Aleppo, Syria) is a Syrian-Kurdish journalist and novelist.

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Mahjar

The Mahjar (translit, one of its more literal meanings being "the Arab diaspora") was a movement related to Romanticism migrant literary movement started by Arabic-speaking writers who had emigrated to the Americas from Ottoman-ruled Lebanon, Syria and Palestine at the turn of the 20th century and became a movement in the 1910s. Syrian literature and Mahjar are Arabic literature.

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Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish (Maḥmūd Darwīsh; 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet.

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Mamdouh Adwan

Mamdouh Adwan (ممدوح عدوان., 23 November 1941 – 19 December 2004) was a prolific Syrian writer, poet, playwright and critic.

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Maria Dadouch

Maria Dadouch (born 1970 in Damascus, Syria) is a Syrian literary writer, screenwriter and novelist.

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Marie Seurat

Marie Maamar Seurat (née. Bachi, 26 January 1949) is a Syrian novelist.

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Maronites

Maronites (Al-Mawārinah; Marunoye) are a Syriac Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region of West Asia, whose members traditionally belong to the Maronite Church, with the largest concentration long residing near Mount Lebanon in modern Lebanon.

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Mary Ajami

Mary Ajami (1888 – 25 December 1965) was a Syrian poet and pioneering feminist writer in Arabic, who launched the first women's periodical in Western Asia called Al Arus (Arabic: the Bride).

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Maryana Marrash

Maryana bint Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (Arabic: مريانا بنت فتح الله بن نصر الله مرّاش,; 1848–1919), also known as Maryana al-Marrash or Maryana Marrash al-Halabiyah, was a Syrian writer and poet of the Nahda or the Arab Renaissance.

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Max Weiss (scholar)

Max Weiss is an American scholar and translator, specialising in the culture and history of the Middle East.

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Melkite Greek Catholic Church

The Melkite Greek Catholic Church, or Melkite Byzantine Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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Memoir

A memoir is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories.

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Modern Arabic literature

The instance that marked the shift in the whole of Arabic literature towards modern Arabic literature can be attributed to the Arab World-West contact during the 19th and early 20th century.

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Mohammad Al Attar

Mohammad Al Attar (born 1980 in Damascus, Syria) is a Syrian playwright and dramaturg who lives in Berlin.

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Mohja Kahf

Mohja Kahf (مهجة قحف, born 1967 in Damascus) is a Syrian-American poet, novelist, and professor.

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Moroccan Arabic

Moroccan Arabic (translit), also known as Darija (الدارجة or الداريجة), is the dialectal, vernacular form or forms of Arabic spoken in Morocco.

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Moroccan literature

Moroccan literature are the written and oral works of Moroccan culture. Syrian literature and Moroccan literature are Arabic literature.

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Muhammad al-Maghut

Muhammad al-Maghout (1934–April 3, 2006) (محمد الماغوط) was a renowned Syrian writer and poet.

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Muhammad Kurd Ali

Muhammad Kurd Ali (محمد كرد علي, 1876–1953) was a notable Syrian scholar, historian and literary critic in the Arabic language.

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Mustafa Khalifa

Mustafa Khalifa, also spelled Moustafa Khalifa (born 1948 in Jarabulus, Syria) is a Syrian novelist, political writer and former prisoner of conscience.

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Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature

The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature is a literary award for Arabic literature.

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Nahda

The Nahda (translit, meaning "the Awakening"), also referred to as the Arab Awakening or Enlightenment, was a cultural movement that flourished in Arab-populated regions of the Ottoman Empire, notably in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Tunisia, during the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century.

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Najat Abdul Samad

Najat Abdul Samad, alternative spelling Najat Abed Alsamad, (نجاة عبد الصمد, romanized: Najāt ʻAbd al-Ṣamad, born 1967, As-Suwayda, Syria), is a Syrian Druze fiction writer, poet and gynecologist.

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Nancy N. Roberts

Nancy N. Roberts is a translator of Arabic literature.

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New Testament

The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.

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Nihad Sirees

Nihad Sirees (born 1950, Aleppo, Syria) is a Syrian writer of contemporary fiction and screenwriter.

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Nizar Qabbani

Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani (نزار توفيق قباني,, Nizar Kabbani; 21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998) was a Syrian diplomat, poet, writer and publisher.

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No Knives in the Kitchens of This City

No Knives in the Kitchens of This City is a novel by the Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa.

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Novel

A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.

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Nur al-Din Zengi

Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī (نور الدين محمود زنگي; February 1118 – 15 May 1174), commonly known as Nur ad-Din (lit. 'Light of the Faith' in Arabic), was a Turkoman member of the Zengid dynasty, who ruled the Syrian province of the Seljuk Empire.

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Old Testament

The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.

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Omar Youssef Souleimane

Omar Youssef Souleimane, (born 1987 in Al-Qutayfah near Damascus, Syria), is a French-Syrian journalist, poet and literary writer.

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One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.

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Oral literature

Oral literature, orature, or folk literature is a genre of literature that is spoken or sung in contrast to that which is written, though much oral literature has been transcribed.

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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

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Orientalism

In art history, literature and cultural studies, orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Outline of Syria

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Syria: Syria – country in Western Asia, that borders Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south and Israel to the southwest.

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Palestine (region)

The region of Palestine, also known as Historic Palestine, is a geographical area in West Asia.

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Palestinian enclaves

The Palestinian enclaves are areas in the West Bank designated for Palestinians under a variety of unsuccessful U.S. and Israeli-led proposals to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

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Palestinians

Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.

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Panegyric

A panegyric is a formal public speech or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing.

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Paul Starkey

Paul Starkey is a British scholar and translator of Arabic literature.

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Philosophical realism

Philosophical realism – usually not treated as a position of its own but as a stance towards other subject matters – is the view that a certain kind of thing (ranging widely from abstract objects like numbers to moral statements to the physical world itself) has mind-independent existence, i.e.

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Play (theatre)

A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Poet

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.

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Political drama

A political drama can describe a play, film or TV program that has a political component, whether reflecting the author's political opinion, or describing a politician or series of political events.

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Politician

A politician is a person who has political power in the government of a state, a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government.

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Prison literature

Prison literature is a literary genre characterized by literature that is written while the author is confined in a location against his or her will, such as a prison, jail or house arrest.

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Prose

Prose is the form of written language (including written speech or dialogue) that follows the natural flow of speech, a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or typical writing conventions and formatting.

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Prose poetry

Prose poetry is poetry written in prose form instead of verse form while otherwise deferring to poetic devices to make meaning.

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Proverb

A proverb (from proverbium) or an adage is a simple, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience.

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Qamishli

Qamishli is a city in northeastern Syria on the Syria–Turkey border, adjoining the city of Nusaybin in Turkey.

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Qasida

The qaṣīda (also spelled qaṣīdah; plural qaṣā’id) is an ancient Arabic word and form of poetry, often translated as ode,. Syrian literature and Qasida are Arabic literature.

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Quneitra

Quneitra (also Al Qunaytirah, Qunaitira, or Kuneitra; ٱلْقُنَيْطِرَة or ٱلْقُنَيطْرَة, al-Qunayṭrah or al-Qunayṭirah) is the largely destroyed and abandoned capital of the Quneitra Governorate in south-western Syria.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Qustaki al-Himsi

Qustaki al-Himsi (قسطاكي الحمصي,; 1858–1941) was a Syrian writer and poet of the Nahda movement (the Arabic renaissance), a prominent figure in the Arabic literature of the 19th and 20th centuries and one of the first reformers of the traditional Arabic poetry.

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Rasha Abbas

Rasha Abbas (born 1984 in Latakia, Syria) is a Syrian writer and journalist, best known for The Invention of German Grammar, a collection of short stories in Arabic about her experience as a refugee in Germany.

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Rasha Omran

Rasha Omran (رشا عمران) is a Syrian poet.

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Refugees of the Syrian civil war

Refugees of the Syrian civil war are citizens and permanent residents of Syria who have fled the country throughout the Syrian civil war.

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Rigour

Rigour (British English) or rigor (American English; see spelling differences) describes a condition of stiffness or strictness.

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Rima Bali

Rima Bali (born 1969 in Aleppo, Syria) is a Syrian writer of contemporary Arabic fiction.

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Risalat al-Ghufran

(), meaning The Epistle of Forgiveness, is a satirical work of Arabic poetry written by Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri around 1033 CE.

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Robert Irwin (writer)

Robert Graham Irwin (23 August 194628 June 2024) was a British scholar and novelist.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Rosa Yaseen Hasan

Rosa Yaseen Hassan (روزا ياسين حسن) is a Syrian novelist and writer.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre in Sloane Square, London, England.

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Saadallah Wannous

Saadallah Wannous (سعد الله ونوس) (1941 – 15 May 1997) was a Syrian playwright, writer and editor on Arabic theater.

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Saladin

Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (– 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.

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Salim Barakat

Salim Barakat (سليمبركات, Selîm Berekat; born 1 September 1951 in Qamishli) is a Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet.

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Salma Khadra Jayyusi

Salma Khadra Jayyusi (سلمى الخضراء الجيوسي; 16 April 1925 – 20 April 2023) was a Palestinian poet, writer, translator and anthologist.

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Salma Kuzbari

Salma al-Haffar Kuzbari (May 1, 1923 – August 11, 2006) was a Syrian writer and translator.

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Salon (gathering)

A salon is a gathering of people held by a host.

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Salwa Al Neimi

Salwa Al Neimi, also Salwa al-Nuʿaymī (سلوى النعيمي) is a Syrian writer, poet and journalist living in France.

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Samar al-'Aṭṭār

Samar al-'Aṭṭār (born 1945) is a Syrian writer, novelist and translator.

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Samar Yazbek

Samar Yazbek (سمر يزبك, born 1970 in Jableh, Syria) is a Syrian writer and journalist.

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Sania Saleh

Sania Saleh (1935–1985; Arabic: سنية صالح) was a Syrian writer and poet, who wrote and published several poetry collections.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Screenplay

A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show, or video game (as opposed to a stage play) by screenwriters.

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Shi'r

Shi'r (Poetry) was an avant-garde and modernist monthly literary magazine with a special reference to poetry.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction.

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Six-Day War

The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 June 1967.

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A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class, middle class, and upper class.

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Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.

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Storytelling

Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics or embellishment.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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Syria Speaks

Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline is a 2014 collection of writing and art published by Saqi Books.

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Syrian Arabic

Syrian Arabic refers to any of the Arabic varieties spoken in Syria, or specifically to Levantine Arabic.

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Syrian diaspora

Syrian diaspora refers to Syrian people and their descendants who chose or were forced to emigrate from Syria and now reside in other countries as immigrants, or as refugees of the Syrian Civil War.

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Syrian revolution

The Syrian revolution, also known as the Syrian Revolution of Dignity, was a series of mass protests and uprisings in Syria – with a subsequent violent reaction by the Syrian Arab Republic – lasting from March 2011 to June 2012, as part of the wider Arab Spring in the Arab world.

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Taissier Khalaf

Taissier Ahmad Khalaf (also written Taysir Khalaf), (تيسير أحمد خلف., born in Quneitra 1967), is a Syrian-Palestinian novelist, critic and researcher.

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Tartus

Tartus (طَرْطُوس / ALA-LC: Ṭarṭūs; known in the County of Tripoli as Tortosa and also transliterated from French Tartous) is a major port city on the Mediterranean coast of Syria.

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The Arabic Encyclopedia

The Arabic Encyclopedia (الموسوعة العربية) is an encyclopedia in 24 volumes in Arabic language, published by the government of Syria.

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The Desolate Time

The Desolate Time is a 1973 novel by Syrian writer Ḥaidar Ḥaidar.

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Travel literature

The genre of travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.

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Tripoli, Lebanon

Tripoli (طَرَابُلُس) is the largest and most important city in northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country.

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Trope (literature)

A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Ulfat Idlibi

Ulfat Idlibi (ألفت الادلبي or إلفة الإدلبي (Ilifat al-Idlibi); Улфат Идлиби/Ulfat Idlibi) (November 1912, Damascus – 21 March 2007, Paris) was a Syrian novel writer.

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Umayyad Caliphate

The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.

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University of Aleppo

University of Aleppo (Jāmiʿat Ḥalab, also called Aleppo University) is a public university located in Aleppo, Syria.

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Usama ibn Munqidh

Majd ad-Dīn Usāma ibn Murshid ibn ʿAlī ibn Munqidh al-Kināni al-Kalbī (also Usamah, Ousama, etc.; مجد الدّين اُسامة ابن مُرشد ابن على ابن مُنقذ الكنانى الكلبى) (4 July 1095 – 17 November 1188) or Ibn Munqidh was a medieval Arab Muslim poet, author, faris (knight), and diplomat from the Banu Munqidh dynasty of Shaizar in northern Syria.

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Utopian and dystopian fiction

Utopian and dystopian fiction are subgenres of science fiction that explore social and political structures.

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Vatican Library

The Vatican Apostolic Library (Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly known as the Vatican Library or informally as the Vat, is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City, and is the city-state's national library.

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Walid Ikhlasi

Walid Ikhlasi (وليد إخلاصي; 27 May 1935 – 19 February 2022) was a Syrian novelist, short story writer and playwright.

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War novel

A war novel or military fiction is a novel about war.

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Widad Sakakini

Widad Sakakini (وداد سكاكيني; 1913–1991) was a writer and critic from Syria.

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Words Without Borders

Words Without Borders (WWB) is an international magazine open to international exchange through translation, publication, and promotion of the world's best writing and authors who are not easily accessible to English-speaking readers.

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World literature

World literature is used to refer to the total of the world's national literature and the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin.

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Writer

A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, to inspire feelings and emotions, or to entertain.

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Yaa'rab al-Eissa

Yaa'rab al-Eissa is a Syrian writer and journalist.

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Yassin al-Haj Saleh

Yassin al-Haj Saleh (ياسين الحاج صالح; born 1961), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2008 is a Syrian writer and political dissident.

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Yazidis

Yazidis, also spelled Yezidis (translit), are a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran.

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Young adult literature

Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as friendship, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality.

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Yusuf al-Khal

Yusuf al-Khal (يوسف الخال; December 25, 1917 – March 9, 1987) was a Lebanese-Syrian poet, journalist, and publisher.

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Zakaria Tamer

Zakaria Tamer (Zakariyyā Tāmir; born January 2, 1931), also spelled Zakariya Tamir, is a Syrian short story writer.

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Zionism

Zionism is an ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe.

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1966 Syrian coup d'état

The 1966 Syrian coup d'état refers to events between 21 and 23 February during which the government of the Syrian Arab Republic was overthrown and replaced.

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1982 Hama massacre

The Hama massacre (مجزرة حماة) occurred in February 1982 when the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies, under orders of president Hafez al-Assad, besieged the town of Hama for 27 days in order to quell an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood against the Ba'athist government.

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See also

20th-century literature

• 1970s in literature
• 1990s in literature
• 20th century in literature
• 20th-century French literature
• 20th-century novels
• 20th-century theatre
• Acmeist poetry
• Caliban over Setebos
• Digital poetry
• Electronic literature
• Experimental literature
• Generación del 45
• Haptic poetry
• Indonesian literature in the period 1950–65
• Intimism (poetic movement)
• Latin American Boom
• Lesbian pulp fiction
• Literary modernism
• Nur zwei Dinge
• Poetic transrealism
• Postmodern literature
• Soviet literature
• Stridentism
• Syrian literature
• Systems novel
• Zenitism

21st-century literature

• 2000s in literature
• 2010s in literature
• 2020s in literature
• 21st century in literature
• Digital poetry
• Electronic literature
• Eratosphere
• Fratire
• List of 21st-century writers
• Neo-Decadence
• Object-oriented writing
• Syrian literature

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_literature

Also known as Literature of Syria, Syrian poetry.

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