Celebrated Syrian author, poet and screenwriter Khaled Khalifa dies aged 59
Khalifa was one of Syria’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists, though his six novels were banned in the country
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Khalifa was one of Syria’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists, though his six novels were banned in the country
The Pact We Made by AlAmmar, Layla at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 000828444X - ISBN 13: 9780008284442 - The Borough Press - 2019 - Hardcover
SHARE Novels are born in different ways. Some lucky writers have eureka moments and magic-up original concepts and bold outlines. Others are forced to sift and sort hazy thoughts and germs of ideas, shaping them over time into something resembling a narrative. For author Layla Al Ammar, the issues that form the background to her second novel had been incubating in her mind for years, but only as hard facts. “These were issues that I’d been deeply absorbed in from early 2011,” she says, “and I had followed their developments closely – from the Arab uprisings across the region, the ci...