Haidar Haidar

Haidar Haidar (Arabic: حيدر حيدر‎) (born 1936 in Husayn al-Baher) is a Syrian writer and novelist.

His novel Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr was banned in several Arab countries, and even resulted in a belated angry reaction from the clerics of Al-Azhar University 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 University students staged huge protests against the novel, that eventually led to its confiscation.[1][2][3][4]

Works

Novels
  • Al-Fahd (الفهد) The Cheetah, 1968.
  • Az-Zaman al-Muhish (الزمن الموحش) The Desolate Time, 1973.
  • Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr (وليمة لأعشاب البحر) A Feast for the Seaweeds, 1983.
  • Maraya an-Nar (مرايا النار) The Mirrors of Fire.
  • 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
  • Hakaya an-Nawrass al-Muhajir (حكايا النورس المهاجر) Tales of the Migrating Seagull, 1968.
  • Al-Wamdh (الومض) The flash, 1970.
  • Al-Faiadhan (الفيضان) The Flood, 1975.
  • Al-Wu'ul (الوعول) The Ibecis, 1978.
  • At-Tamawujat (التموجات) The Ripples, 1982.
  • Ghasaq al-Aalihah (غسق الآلهة) The Dusk of Gods, 1994.

Other works
  • Capucci (كبوتشي) biography of Capucci, 1978.
  • Awraq al-Manfa (أوراق المنفى) Exile Papers, 1993.
  • Olumona (علومنا) Our Sciences.

References
  1. Off the shelf -- and then where? Archived 2012-04-21 at WebCite. Al-Ahram. 7 February 2001
  2. Egypt censors book fair. AFP 29 January 2008
  3. Book fair opens amid controversy. Heba Sala, BBC 25 January 2001
  4. Cairo book protesters released. BBC 12 May 2000



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