The Ministry of Culture and the Arab Writers’ Union mourn Syrian writer Haider Haider

Damascus (ST): The Ministry of Culture, the Arab Writers Union and the Syrian Cultural Center mourned the Syrian   writer Haidar Haidar, who passed away at the age of 87.

The late writer, Haidar, was born in 1936 from the village of Husayn al-Bahr in Tartous governorate. He received his primary education there, then joined the Institute of Educational Teachers in the city of Aleppo, where he continued his studies and graduated in 1954. He then moved to the city of Damascus, where he began writing in daily and monthly periodicals.

He is one of the founders of the Arab Writers Union in Damascus in the year 1968, and he was a member of its executive office. He published a collection of “The Flash” in 1970 among a group of books that were the first publications of the Union, and in the same year he went to Algeria to work as a teacher in the city of Inaya, and at the same time, he continued to write and publish in Arab periodicals.

During his literary career, the late Haidar won several awards, including the Lucarne Festival Award, the Carlo Vivari Festival Award, and the Damascus New Film Festival Award.

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