Munif, 'Abd al-Rahman

Munif, 'Abd al-Rahman
▪ 2005

      Arab writer and economist (b. 1933, Amman, Transjordan [now in Jordan]—d. Jan. 24, 2004, Damascus, Syria), wrote with intelligence and passion some of the greatest Arab novels of the 20th century. Born of a Saudi father and an Iraqi mother, he became an Arab nationalist—secular and socialist—after the declaration of Israel's statehood in 1948. In 1963, for his opposition to the Saudi royal family, he was stripped of his Saudi citizenship. He worked as an economist in the oil industry until the late 1970s, when he began to focus on his writing. He moved to Damascus in the 1980s. He was best known for his Cities of Salt quintet, three volumes of which were published in English: Mudun al-milh (1984; Cities of Salt, 1987), Al-ukhdud (The Trench, 1991), and Taqasim al-layl wa-al-nahar (Variations on Night and Day, 1993). Also translated into English was his Sirat madinah (1994; Story of a City: A Childhood in Amman, 1996).

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