Haidar Haidar

Haidar Haidar ( _ar. حيدر حيدر) is a Syrian writer and novelist. His most famous novel is "Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr" which was banned in several Arab countries, and even resulted in a belated angry reaction from the clerics of al-Azhar 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 students staged huge protests against the novel, that eventually led to its confiscation.

Works

Novels

* Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr (وليمة لأعشاب البحر) "A Feast for the Seaweeds", is his first and most famous novel، 1983.
* Maraya an-Nar (مرايا النار) "The Mirrors of Fire".
* Az-Zaman al-Muhish (الزمن الموحش) "The Desolate Time", 1994.
* Shumous al-Ghajar (شموس الغجر) "The Suns of Gypsies", 1996.
* Haql Urjuwan (حقل أرجوان) "A Field of Purple", 2000.
* Marathi al-Ayyam (مراثي الأيام), "The Elegies of Days", 2001.

Short stories

* Al-Wamdh (الومض) "The flash", 1970.
* Hakaya an-Nawrass al-Muhajir (حكايا النورس المهاجر) "Tales of the Migrating Seagull".
* Ghasaq al-Aalihah (غسق الآلهة) "The Dusk of Gods", 1994.
* Al-Faiadhan (الفيضان) "The Flood".
* At-Tamawujat (التموجات) "The Ripples".

Other works

* Awraq al-Manfa (أوراق المنفى) "Exile Papers", 1993.
* Olumona (علومنا) "Our Sciences".