Biographies: Hany El Raheb - Writer

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Hany El Raheb was born in Latakia in 1939. He studied English literature at the American University in Beirut and obtained a doctorate from Britain and the title of his thesis was (The Zionist Character in Western Literature). He taught for many years at Damascus University, then he traveled to Yemen and Kuwait, and he returned to Damascus and died in it on February 6, 2000, following a terminal illness that afflicted him. In addition to his work as an author, he was a literary critic. He wrote eight novels and three short story collections, the last of which was published posthumously, in addition to a number of translated books. In 1961, he received the award of the Lebanese magazine Al Adab, and in 1981 he won the Arab Writers Union Award for his novel "Al Wabaa" (The Epidemic).

• 9 May 2022
• Dalia Saad