Haitham Hussein ( ar, هيثم حسين; born November 16, 1978) is a Syrian Kurd novelist, an critique writer and reviewer. Born on November 16, 1978 in the city of
Amuda
Amuda ( ar, عَامُودَا, ʿĀmūdā, ku, ئاموودێ, Amûdê) is a town in Al Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria close to the Syria–Turkey border. As a result of the ongoing civil war, Amuda is currently under the civil co ...
in the province of
Hasaka, Syria. Hussein worked for years as a freelance journalist and critique writer for the major Arab newspapers such as AlHayat, Assafir, Al Bayan, AlQuds, Alarabi and several other Arab papers and journals. He lived near
Damascus, and his house in the Eastern Ghouta was bombarded, he had to leave in mid-2012.
In 2015, Hussein founded
Alriwaya.net website about the Arabic novel and the criticism. The novel and criticism is his first passion in life. Hussein tries to make Arabic novels going beyond the traditional style.
He is married and has a two daughters, Heivy and Rose.
Novels
* ''Aram: the Descendant of Unspoken Pains'' (2007)
* ''Hostages of Sin'' (2010)
* ''Needle of Horror'' (2014)
* ''A Weed in Paradise''(2017)
References
1978 births
Syrian novelists
Syrian literary critics
Living people
Syrian Kurdish people
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