Walid Ikhlasi

Walid Ikhlasi was born on 27 May 1935 in Alexandretta, where his father, a man of letters from Aleppo, ran the religious endowments. He grew up in Aleppo, studied agronomy in Alexandria from 1954 to 1958 and obtained an advanced diploma there in 1960. On his return, he worked at the directorate of economy of Aleppo, taught at the faculty of agronomy, then served from 1966 to 1999 the public cotton office. The author of some fifty books, plays, novels and stories, he presided over the Aleppo branch of the Arab Writers Union, received the Sultan al-Owais prize, stopped writing in 2011 and died in Aleppo on 19 February 2022.

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• Novelدار المتعةWalid Ikhlasi · 1991not translated into EnglishLiterature