Haitham Hussein

Haitham Hussein
Native name
هيثم حسين
Born (1978-11-16) November 16, 1978 (age 46)
Amuda, Syria
OccupationNovelist and Journalist.
LanguageArabic
NationalitySyrian
CitizenshipSyrian
SpouseNesrin Ahmad
ChildrenHeivy and Rose
Website
alriwaya.net

Haitham Hussein (Arabic: هيثم حسين; born November 16, 1978) is a Syrian-Kurdish novelist,[1] literary critic and journalist. A long-time cultural journalist for major Arabic newspapers, he has published five novels in Arabic. In 2012, he had to flee from Syria due to the ongoing Syrian civil war and continuous censorship of his works that deal with life in the Kurdish region of Syria.

Biography

Hussein was born on November 16, 1978, in the city of Amuda in the province of Hasaka, Syria. He worked for years as a freelance journalist specialized in cultural criticism for major Arabic newspapers, such as Al-Hayat, As-Safir, Al-Bayan, Al-Quds,[2] and Al-Arabi as well as for several other Arabic newspapers[3] and journals. As the Syrian government does not acknowledge Kurdish identity and prohibited his novels, he had to publish them informally.[4]

Hussein lived near Damascus, but after his house in the Eastern Ghouta was bombarded, he fled the country in mid-2012 to live in the United Kingdom.[4] In 2015, Hussein founded the bilingual Al-Riwaya.net website, focusing on his main fields of interest, the Arabic novel and literary criticism. In his own novels, he has chosen a modern style.[5]

He is married and has a two daughters.

Novels

  • Aram: the Descendant of Unspoken Pains (2007)
  • Hostages of Memory[6] (2010)
  • Needle of Horror (2014)
  • A Weed in Paradise (2017)[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Haitham Hussein: the continuing story of a Syrian Kurd novelist". Kurdistantribune.com. 1 December 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  2. ^ "رواية 'إبرة الرعب' للروائيّ السوريّ هيثم حسين". Alquds.co.uk. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  3. ^ "هيثم حسين يصدر "الروائي يقرع طبول الحرب"". Aljazeera.net. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  4. ^ a b ""Literatura izan da nire barrenerainoko bidaia, zein naizen jakiteko"". Berria.eus. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  5. ^ "الرواية نت". Alriwaya.net. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Hostages of Memory". DarArab. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
  7. ^ ""A Weed in Paradise" novel tells tough tales of Syrian Kurds - basnews". Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2017-07-20.


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