Books review of author Khaled Khalifa pdf
Khaled Khalifa was born in 1964 in Aleppo - Syria. Syrian novelist, screenwriter and poet. His novel In Praise of Hate attracted media attention around the world, and the novel was shortlisted in the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in its first session in 2008. His novel has been translated into French, Italian, German, Norwegian, English and Spanish. Khalifa studied at the University of Aleppo and obtained a Bachelor of Laws in 1988, wrote poetry and is a member of the literary forum at the university. Khalifa has written television dramas such as the series (Rainbow) and (Sirat Al Jalali), some documentaries, short films, and feature films (Bab Al Maqam movie). Together with his friends at the University of Aleppo, he founded Alef magazine, his first collection of short stories is (The Guardian of the Deception) and was published in 1993. His second novel is The Notebooks of Qorbat, after which his membership was frozen by the Arab Writers Union for 4 years after he published the novel in 2000. He spent Khalifa is thirteen years old in writing the novel Praise of Hate, a novel that talks about how the lives of Syrian family members were affected by the war between the Syrian regime and the Muslim Brotherhood, and published in it what happened to the Muslim Brotherhood in Hama. It was published in Damascus before being banned, and later republished in Beirut. Commenting on the ban, "This kind of ban on novels is the result of a bureaucracy that does not represent high levels of government." And that he prefers negotiations between artists and the Syrian authorities in order to guarantee freedom of expression. He knew about Khalifa of his positions in support of the Syrian revolution from the moment it was launched, and he never concealed that, as he emphasized on more than one occasion its legitimacy as an irreplaceable option in the face of injustice. He was also previously beaten until his hand was broken during the assault of the Syrian security forces on him while he was participating in the funeral of the Syrian musician Rabih Ghazi on May 26, 2012.