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Nihad Sîris


Born
Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic

Nihad Sirees (born 1950) is a Syrian writer. He was born in Aleppo, and studied engineering at university. He emerged as a fiction writer in the 1980s, and till date has written novels, plays, and scripts for TV dramas. Among his notable works are the historical novel The North Winds and the popular TV series The Silk Market, which has been translated for screening in English, Persian and German. He also wrote a TV series about the Lebanese writer Kahlil Gibran. His novel The Silence and the Roar was banned in Syria, and has been translated into German, French and English. His second novel States of Passion, translated by Max Weiss, was published by Pushkin Press in 2018.[1]

In the wake of the Arab Spring, Sirees was targeted for heightened ...more

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“You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen.”
― Nihad Sirees
tags: nationalism, politics, power, traitor
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“I believe that love and peace are the right way to confront tyranny.”
― Nihad Sirees, The Silence and the Roar
tags: love, peace, tyranny
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“Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.”
― Nihad Sirees
tags: description, identity, name
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