Ziyad Qasim (1945–2007) was a novelist and writer from Amman, Jordan. He wrote several novels that were very popular in Jordan.

Life and education

Ziyad Qassem was born in

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

, the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in 1945. He entered the University of Jordan in 1965. He obtained a BA in accounting in 1969 and a MA in accounting from the University of Brighton in Britain in 1983. He worked as an accountant in insurance field and navigation until 1978, operations manager in maritime navigation until 1983, and accounting and banking marketing coach at the Jordan Management Institute until

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

. He retired in 1995.

Death

He had a stroke at the end of June 2007, when he entered

King Hussein Medical Center King Hussein Medical Center (Arabic مدينة الحسين الطبية), is a medical complex of five hospitals situated in Amman, Jordan. The center is affiliated to the major Jordanian Royal Medical Services hospitals; also known as JRMS. JRMS ...

and died there on Friday evening, August 3, 2007. The Jordanian Writers Association, in a statement issued on behalf of its president, the storyteller Saud Qabil and its administrative and public bodies, mourned the novelist Ziad Qassem: "The Association mourns Ziyad Qassem, to remember him as a creative and educated novelist with position, a creative and political history who documented Amman and the Jordanian place in general, he presented distinguished works through which he touched the spirit of history and human transparency in a distinctive creative manner"

Works

"Al shahen wa al tijara al kharijya" (Shipping and Foreign Trade) (in two parts) (scientific research) Amman/ Middle East Press, 1984. "Al modir amaam" (General Manager) (novel) Amman/ International Press, 1987. "Abnae al qalaa" Sons of the Castle (novel) Amman/ Assem Press, 1990. "Al zawbaa" (The Storm) (a novel) published by the Greater Amman Municipality, Amman (six parts) during the years 1994-2003. "Al Areen" (the lair), (novel) Greater Amman Municipality, Amman, 1999. "Al kaserun" (The Losers) (a novel) Greater Amman Municipality, Amman, 1999.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Qasim, Ziyad 1945 births 2007 deaths Jordanian novelists People from Amman