Haidar Haidar

Haidar Haidar (Arabic: حيدر حيدر) is a Syrian writer and novelist.

His novel Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr was banned in several Arab countries, and even resulted in a belated angry reaction from the clerics of Al-Azhar University upon reprinting in Egypt in the year 2000. The clerics issued a Fatwa banning the novel, and accused Haidar of heresy and offending Islam. Al-Azhar University students staged huge protests against the novel, that eventually led to its confiscation.[1][2][3][4]

Works

Novels

Short stories

Other works

References

  1. Off the shelf -- and then where?. Al-Ahram. 7 February 2001
  2. Egypt censors book fair. AFP 29 January 2008
  3. Book fair opens amid controversy. Heba Sala, BBC 25 January 2001
  4. Cairo book protesters released. BBC 12 May 2000