القراءة والنسيان؛ الخروج من مدن الملح

Abdul Rahman Al Munif was born in Amman - Jordan in 1933 to a Saudi father and an Iraqi mother. He studied in Jordan until he obtained his secondary certificate, then moved to Baghdad and joined the Faculty of Law in 1952, then became involved in political activity there. He joined the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party until he was expelled from Iraq with a large number of Arab students after signing the Baghdad Pact in 1955 to move Then to Cairo to complete his studies there. In 1958 he moved to Belgrade to complete his studies and obtained a doctorate in oil economics, then moved to Damascus in 1962 to work there in the Syrian Oil Company, then moved to Beirut in 1973 to work there in Al-Balagh magazine, then returned to Iraq again in 1975 to work in the Oil and Development magazine . He left Iraq in 1981 heading to France, then returned to Damascus in 1986 and resides there, where he devoted his life to writing novels. Munif married a Syrian woman and had children with her. He lived in Damascus until he died in 2004, and remained until his last days in opposition to global imperialism, as he always objected to the invasion. The American delegation to Iraq in 2003, even though he was a violent opponent of the regime of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.