Muta Safadi

Muta Safadi was born in Damascus in 1929 and graduated from the university of his city. European thinkers committed to the causes of their people marked him from the fifties onwards, Sartre first among them, and he would hold all his life that existentialism and the Arab cause were a single demand. He joined the Baath party, left it quickly, and counts among its first critics from within. Settled in Beirut, he founded there in 1979 a journal of contemporary Arab thought and directed a publishing centre that had Foucault translated; he himself translated Deleuze. He died in June 2016 and lies in Beirut.

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• Novelجيل القدرMuta Safadi · 1960not translated into EnglishLiterature