Abdel Rahman Manief (1933 - 2004) عبدالرحمن منيف

Filmography

• Writer (1)
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    • • Endings
      • 1999 - Movie - Short
      • (Writer)

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• A Saudi author, born in Amman, Jordan. His grandmother was Iraqi. He spent his early years with the family traveling between Damascus, Amman, and some Saudi cities. He finished his...Read more secondary studies in the Jordanian capital, started his political activity, and became affiliated with the newly formed Ba'ath Party. He joined the Faculty of Law in Baghdad in 1952. After signing the Baghdad Pact in 1955, he was exiled to the Republic of Egypt with a large number of students. He continued his studies at Cairo University and obtained a BA in Law. In 1958, he completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where he obtained a doctorate in economic sciences, specializing in oil economics, in 1961. He returned to Beirut, where he was elected as a member of the national leadership for a few months. In 1962, his political and organizational affiliation with the Ba'ath Party ended after the Homs conference. In 1963, his Saudi passport was withdrawn by the Saudi embassy in Damascus, citing his political affiliations as a reason, and it was not returned to him until his death in 2004. In 1964, he returned to Damascus and worked in the Syrian oil company Fuel Distribution Company. At a later stage, he worked as a marketing manager of Syrian crude oil. In 1973, he settled in Beirut, where he worked in Al Balagh magazine for a few years. He left Beirut in 1975 and settled in Baghdad, where he worked as an economist and then started publishing a magazine concerned with oil economics, called Oil and Development until 1981 when the Iran-Iraq War broke out. He moved to Paris, where he devoted himself entirely to writing fiction. "Cities of Salt" was one of his most important productions. He left in early 1987, returning to Syria. In 1987, he settled in the city of Damascus and continued writing, moving between Damascus and Beirut until he died on January 24, 2004.

• Nationality:
• Saudi Arabia

• Date of Birth:
• 29 May 1933

• Died on:
• 24 January 2004

Crew worked with

• • Sameh Bahloul
• • Diaa Abdel Khaleq
• • Osama Abdullah
• • Evon Selim
• • Ahmed Thabit

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