Hamdan Dammag (
Arabic
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:), (born in
Ibb
Ibb ( ar, إِبّ, ʾIbb) is a city in Yemen, the capital of Ibb Governorate, located about northeast of Mocha and south of Sana'a.
A market town and administrative centre developed during the Ottoman Empire, it is one of the most important ...
28 November 1973) is a Yemeni
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
and a prize-winner novelist. He has several poetry and short stories publications. He is the son of the foremost Yemeni novelist
Zayd Mutee' Dammaj Zayd Mutee' Dammaj (Arabic:زيد مطيع دماج), (1943 - March 20, 2000) was a Yemeni author and politician. He is best known for his short novel '' The Hostage'' which was selected by the Arab Writers Union as one of the top 100 Arabic novels ...
.
He is the
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
of ''Ghaiman'', an Arabic literature journal, the vice president of the Yemen Center for Studies and Research (YCSR) and the Vice President of th
International League for Peace and Human Rights(ILPHR) - Geneva. He has several publications in
computer science
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and
literature
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. He received his
Ph.D
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in computer science from the
University of Reading
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in 2005. As part of his Ph.D., he introduced a new safety-oriented variant of
Statecharts, called Safecharts.
Publications
Books
* ''The Fly'', a short-stories collection, Yemen Book Authority Publication, Sana'a, 2000.
* ''No One Was But Me!'', a poetry collection, Arwiqah for Studies and Publication, Cairo, 2013.
*''Perhaps He Didn't Mean it!'', a short-stories collection, Arrafid Publication, UAE, 2015.
* ''The Gemstone of Attakkar Mountain'', a prize-winning novel, (1st edition: Arab Creativity Prize, Al-Sharja, UAE, 2015), (2nd edition: Arwiqah for Studies and Publication, Cairo, 2017).
*''The Agony of Silence: a Collection from al-Baradouni's Poems'', Alowis Foundation publication, Dubai, 2018.
*''Letters innocent of the polluted word: A Collection from al-Maqaleh's Poems'', Al-A’edoun Publishers, Amman, 2021.
References
Yemeni emigrants to the United Kingdom
Yemeni computer scientists
British computer scientists
Yemeni novelists
21st-century British novelists
1973 births
Living people
Yemeni short story writers
21st-century Yemeni novelists
21st-century Yemeni poets
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