Haidar Haidar

Haidar Haidar
Haidar Haidar
Native name	حيدر حيدر
Born	1936; Husayn al-Baher, Syria
Language	Arabic
Notable works	Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr

Haidar Haidar (Arabic: حيدر حيدر) (born 1936 in Husayn al-Baher) 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.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Works

Novels

Al-Fahd (Arabic: الفهد, lit. 'The Cheetah'), 1968
Az-Zaman al-Muhish (Arabic: الزمن الموحش, lit. 'The Desolate Time'), 1973
Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr (Arabic: وليمة لأعشاب البحر, lit. 'A Feast for the Seaweeds') 1983
Maraya an-Nar (Arabic: مرايا النار, lit. 'The Mirrors of Fire'), 1992
Shumous al-Ghajar (Arabic: شموس الغجر, lit. 'The Suns of Gypsies'), 1996
Haql Urjuwan (Arabic: حقل أرجوان, lit. 'A Field of Purple'), 2000
Marathi al-Ayyam (Arabic: مراثي الأيام, lit. 'The Elegies of Days'), 2001

Short stories

Hakaya an-Nawrass al-Muhajir (Arabic: حكايا النورس المهاجر, lit. 'Tales of the Migrating Seagull'), 1968
Al-Wamdh (Arabic: الومض, lit. 'The Flash'), 1970
Al-Faiadhan (Arabic: الفيضان, lit. 'The Flood'), 1975
Al-Wu'ul (Arabic: الوعول, lit. 'The Ibecis'), 1978
At-Tamawujat (Arabic: التموجات, lit. 'The Ripples'), 1982
Ghasaq al-Aalihah (Arabic: غسق الآلهة, lit. 'The Dusk of Gods'), 1994

Other works

Capucci (Arabic: كبوتشي, lit. 'biography of Capucci'), 1978
Awraq al-Manfa (Arabic: أوراق المنفى, lit. 'Exile Papers'), 1993
Olumona (Arabic: علومنا, lit. 'Our Sciences')

References

^ Off the shelf -- and then where? Archived 2012-07-21 at the Wayback Machine. Al-Ahram. 7 February 2001
^ Egypt censors book fair^{[permanent dead link]}. AFP 29 January 2008
^ Book fair opens amid controversy. Heba Sala, BBC 25 January 2001
^ Cairo book protesters released. BBC 12 May 2000

Haidar Haidar’s ‘Banquet for Seaweed’ Attempts Balancing Act. MAHMOUD SAEED. Al Jadid, Vol. 6, no. 31 (Spring 2000)

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[1] Off the shelf -- and then where? Archived 2012-07-21 at the Wayback Machine. Al-Ahram. 7 February 2001

[2] Egypt censors book fair^{[permanent dead link]}. AFP 29 January 2008

[3] Book fair opens amid controversy. Heba Sala, BBC 25 January 2001

[4] Cairo book protesters released. BBC 12 May 2000

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