- Fawwāz Ḥaddād (1947-, Syria) – al-Sūriyyūn al-Aʿdāʾ (‘The enemy Syrians’, 2014). The opening scene of this novel, an army officer opens fire on three generations, and only the youngest baby survives. What follows are three storylines: the lawyer who represents the family, the officer whose murderous act allows him to quickly climb the ranks of the Syrian army, and the story of the baby, ʿAdnān. This latter becomes a doctor and is sentenced to death, but due to the intervention of an army assistant, he is sent to the infamous Tadmur prison (reference) (also in G: Dysfunctional Governance: Prison Memoires: Tadmur Syria). The novel describes the state of Syria during the reigns of Hafez and Bashar al-Asad, starting with the 1982 Hama massacre to the 2011 Syrian revolution, through the story of its Alawite characters (reference).
Refrences:
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- Selmā Sālim. 2015. “Fawwāz Ḥaddād fī ‘al-Sūriyyūn al-aʿadāʾ’: Taḥawullāt al-Bashr fī Būtiqah ‘al-Abad’.” In Bidāyyāt (10) https://www.bidayatmag.com/node/523 https://bidayatmag.com/node/523 (last accessed 6 December 2021)
- Aljazeera Arabic: Khārij al-Naṣṣ. 2020. “Al-Sūriyyūn al-Aʿdāʾ … Zaman al-Ibādah al-Sūriyyah.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDWlz_4eCD4, 20 October 2023 (last accessed 26 October 2023)