• The Ninety-Ninth Floor

     

    ’To be a Palestinian, either you forget your roots and deny your origins in order to advance in life, or you remain a bullet in the barrel of a rifle waiting to be fired.’ So says Majd, a Palestinian living in New York, working on the 99th floor of a sleek office building, and struggling to keep at bay memories of the 1982 massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon.

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  • The Book of the Sultan’s Seal, Strange Incidents from History in the City of Mars

     

    It’s hard to imagine a debut more thrilling than Youssef Rakha’s groundbreaking The Book of the Sultan’s Seal. The novel is made up of nine chapters, each centered on a drive our hero, Mustafa Çorbacı, takes around greater Cairo—city of post-9/11 Islam. In a series of visions, Çorbacı encounters the spirit of the last Ottoman sultan and embarks on a mission the sultan assigns him. Çorbacı’s trials shed light on the contemporary Arab Muslim’s desperation for a sense of identity: The Book of the Sultan’s Seal is both a suspenseful, erotic, riotous novel and an urgent, unparalleled examination of accounts of Muslim demise.

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  • Always Coca-Cola

     

    Always Coca-Cola is the story of three very different young women attending university in Beirut: Abeer, Jana, and Yasmine. The narrator, Abeer Ward (fragrant rose, in Arabic), daughter of a conservative family, admits wryly that her name is also the name of her father’s flower shop.

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  • Sarmada

     

    Three women struggle against the forces of society, family, and passion in a small Druze village in the south of Syria as the country itself struggles against the forces of the Ottoman Empire, the French Empire, and then the Baath. The village of Sarmada is an enchanting place, but the people who live there don’t much notice it.

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Fadi Azzam

Information About Author

 

Fadi Azzam is a free lance acclaimed journalist, whose work is published regularly in Al Quds Al Arabi, daily independent Arabic news papers based in London.

Fadi was born in 1973 in Swaida in southern part of Syria.

Passionate about literature and story telling since a very young age, Fadi spend his childhood years reading and listening to the fascinating stories in his village, between the myth and reality his imagination grew deeper and writing become his life.

Fadi Azzam studied the Arabic language in the Damascus University and graduated in 1998.

Like many compatriots of his generation he was forced to leave his bellowed Damascus and settle in United Arab Emirates seeking better life.

While progressing professionally in Dubai, Fadi’s heart stayed in Damascus, taking each opportunity to praise this enchanting city though his writings.

In November 2005 Fadi Azzam published a poem of love dedicated to the city of Damascus, the poem became a cult fascination and reached thousands or readers as reported by many the web sites.

Falsely attributed to one of the most famous Arabic contemporary poets knows for his very sharp writing style and than later discovered that the writer is Fadi Azzam “ It’s Damascus, O sons of a b**** ” is one the wildest and the most beautiful poems ever written about Damascus.

Fadi Azzam published his first collection of short stories Thahtaniat in March 2010 and he is coming back with his first novel SARMADA.


Books written by the Author

 

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