| Shaimaa Saied |
A Syrian novelist, born in Aleppo in 1920. He studied law at Damascus University after World War II and the beginning of the era of independence. In the early fifties, he left for Paris and joined the Sorbonne University. However, he was subjected to persecution by the French authorities because of his solidarity with the Algerian Revolution, so he fled back to Syria, where he worked as a lawyer and continued his political and partisan struggle until he became one of the leaders of the opposition within the parliament during the period of unity between Syria and Egypt.
In 1970, President Hafez al-Assad chose him in the first government he formed after the corrective movement that brought him to power as Minister of Justice, and he remained in this position for eleven years. After he left the government, he retired from public work and devoted himself to writing. His first collection of short stories, published in 1948, was entitled "A Cup and a Lamp".
In the following years, he stopped writing, devoting himself full-time to turbulent political activity in Syria in the 1950s. But he returned in 1962 with his first novel "When Will the Rain Return", which chronicled the experience of unity between Syria and Egypt. Among his other literary works are "Pearl Crown" and "Weapon of the Defenseless". He died on 20 July 1998.
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