Ahmed Mansour Monday, October 2, 2023 05:18 PM
The family of the Syrian novelist, poet and screenwriter held a funeral today Khaled KhalifaHis body, from the “Lala Mustafa Pasha” Mosque in Damascus, who passed away yesterday, at the age of 59, and whose burial place was buried in the Al-Taghalibah 2 Martyrs’ Cemetery.
Khaled Khalifa’s grave
Khaled Khalifa was born in Aleppo in 1964. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1988. He was a member of the Literary Forum at the university, during which he wrote poetry, dramatic works, and some documentaries and short and long films, such as “Bab al-Maqam.” He also founded the His friends at the University of Aleppo, Alef Magazine.
His first novel, “The Deception Keeper,” was published in 1993, while his second novel was published in 2000 under the title “The Notebooks of the Qurbat.” His third novel, “Praise of Hatred,” was published in 2008, which attracted media attention around the world. It has been translated into many languages.
In 2013, Khaled Khalifa was in the limelight, when his novel “No Saxons in the Kitchens of This City” won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, which is one of the highest literary honors in the Arab world. In 2016, his masterpiece “Death is Hard Work” was published, after which His novel, “No One Prayed for Them,” was published in 2019, which was recently celebrated by foreign media. Months before his passing, specifically last November, he published a book entitled “An Eagle on the Next Table,” which is an autobiography.
Khaled Khalifa, who studied law and graduated from the Faculty of Law, we can call him the Knight of the Syrian Novel. The novel was more like an arena of confrontation for him. Through it, he expressed his political position on issues and human rights without any ambiguity, and until the last days of his life he carried his concern for Syria and cried. For his lost childhood.
