Haidar Haidar
Haidar Haidar is a Syrian writer and novelist.
His novel Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr was banned in several Arab countries, and even resulted in a belated angry reaction from the clerics of Al-Azhar University 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 University students staged huge protests against the novel, that eventually led to its confiscation.Works
Novels
- Al-Fahd The Cheetah, 1968.
- Az-Zaman al-Muhish The Desolate Time, 1973.
- Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr A Feast for the Seaweeds, 1983.
- Maraya an-Nar The Mirrors of Fire.
- Shumous al-Ghajar The Suns of Gypsies, 1996.
- Haql Urjuwan A Field of Purple, 2000.
- Marathi al-Ayyam, The Elegies of Days, 2001.
Short stories
- Hakaya an-Nawrass al-Muhajir Tales of the Migrating Seagull, 1968.
- Al-Wamdh The flash, 1970.
- Al-Faiadhan The Flood, 1975.
- Al-Wu'ul The Ibecis, 1978.
- At-Tamawujat The Ripples, 1982.
- Ghasaq al-Aalihah The Dusk of Gods, 1994.
Other works
- Capucci biography of Capucci, 1978.
- Awraq al-Manfa Exile Papers, 1993.
- Olumona Our Sciences.
