Munir Altheeb ( ar, منير الذيب)(born 1942) is a notable Syrian scholar, artist and historian critic in the history and art, Member of the

Arab Writers Union The Arab Writers Union (ar.: اتحاد الكتاب العرب) is an association of Arab writers, founded in 1969, in Damascus, Syria, at the initiative of a group of Arab writers including Syrian novelist Hanna Mina. In 2008, the union was mov ...

and member of the Heritage Preservation Commission

Hauran The Hauran ( ar, حَوْرَان, ''Ḥawrān''; also spelled ''Hawran'' or ''Houran'') is a region that spans parts of southern Syria and northern Jordan. It is bound in the north by the Ghouta oasis, eastwards by the al-Safa (Syria), al-Safa ...

, He contributed several books to a lot of Arab libraries in the Arab countries and contributed to many newspapers and magazines in Syria and the Arab Countries.

Early life

Munir was born in

Khabab Khabab ( ar, خبب, Syriac: ܟܚܐܒܐܒ, ) is a town located in southern Syria in the Hauran plain, part of the Daraa Governorate, 57 km (~36 miles) south of Damascus and about the same distance from the city of Daraa. The old name of t ...

, in southern Syria. He was the oldest boy in a family of three brothers and two daughters, born to a farmer's family in

where he was educated in the primary schools and High School. He went on to study at the

University of Damascus The University of Damascus ( ar, جَامِعَةُ دِمَشْقَ, ''Jāmi‘atu Dimashq'') is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus and has campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 through ...

Faculty of Law (1958–1961). He became a teacher of art at the secondary level in 1965 when he finished High School . he Performed a number of art galleries and received.

Career

The

Syrian Syrians ( ar, سُورِيُّون, ''Sūriyyīn'') are an Eastern Mediterranean ethnic group indigenous to the Levant. They share common Levantine Semitic roots. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indi ...

government sent him to

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

in 1981 for teaching and he start there prepared and directed curriculum, books, and mapping at all stages in the Ministry of Education of Yemen. Published at that time more than ninety articles in newspapers and magazines since 1982 related to the Yemeni history and the Yemeni Art. when his return to

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

continued teaching in his hometown

and joined to the

and to the Heritage Preservation Commission

Works

His notable books in history are as follows: 1-Papers in the culture and history of Yaman.(Arabic). 2-Yemen's heritage to the contemporary.(Arabic :اليمن من التراث إلى المعاصرة). 3-Southern Syria

.(Arabic :سورية الجنوبية (حوران)). 4-Glossary of cities and villages in the southern

Levant The Levant () is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is eq ...

(Syria).(Arabic :بلاد الشام الجنوبية سورية).

References

Book list

discover-Syria

daraa site

books of, Munir Altheeb
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