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SUMMARY:Nihad Sirees: Writing under the Gaze of Hafiz al-Asad”
DESCRIPTION:NORTH CAROLINA\n\nNihad Sirees: Writing under the Gaze of Hafiz
  al-Asad”\n\nMarch 24 | 5:00 pm\nPresented by the Duke University Middle
  East Studies Center\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us for a talk presented by the S
 yrian novelist and screenwriter Nihad Sirees. Nihad Sirees was born in the
  ancient Syrian capital of Aleppo (Halab) in 1950. His first novels were p
 ublished in the 1980s and he gained a reputation as a realist in his writi
 ngs which reflect the environment in Aleppo and the lives of the middle cl
 ass\, as well as political\, historical and social issues. He has written 
 7 novels and a number of plays\, TV drama series and children’s dramas. 
 His novel The North Winds\, which deals with the First World War and the
  blossoming on Syrian national consciousness at that time\, was described 
 by critics as one of the most important historical novels in Syria. His no
 vel The Silence and the Roar\, banned in Syria\, has been published in G
 erman\, French\, and most recently in English in 2013.\n\n\n\n\n
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