Add/Update Information: Saadallah Wannous - Writer

A Syrian playwright, born in the village of Husayn al-Baher, near Tartus. He received his education in the schools of Latakia. The dissolution of the union between Syria and Egypt had the deepest impact on his writing. He began writing in Al Adab magazine, then worked in the Ministry of Culture in Damascus. He also worked as an editor of the cultural pages in the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir and the Syrian newspaper Al-Thawra. He held several positions, including serving as director of the General Authority for Theater and Music in Syria. In the late sixties, he traveled to Paris to study theater. In the late seventies, he co-founded the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus and worked as a teacher in it. In the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the siege of Beirut in 1982, he disappeared from the limelight and stopped writing for a decade. He returned to writing in the early nineties. Wannous passed away on May 15, 1997.