Abdallah Maksour

Abdallah Maksour
Born	June 1, 1983 Hama, Syria
🏳️ Nationality	Syrian
💼 Occupation

Abdallah Maksour (Arabic: عبد الله مكسور) (1 June 1983) is a Syrian novelist and journalist. He was born and raised in Hama, Syria. He received a high degree in Humanities and Social Sciences in Damascus University, and a master's degree in media and Public relations from Cairo University. He works in virtual and written journalism since 2007. He has many socio-political novels, especially about the Syrian revolution and the invasion of Iraq.

Biography

Abdallah Maksour was born on the 1st of June, 1983 / 20th of Shaaban, 1403 in Hama, Syria. He received a high degree in Humanities and Social Sciences in Damascus University, and a master's degree in media and Public relations from Cairo University.

He lived in the United Arab Emirates and Belgium until 2014, then he relocated to the United Kingdom.

Media career

He is an international trainer in journalistic occupational safety and security and coverage of conflict and tension, and he is certified by the International Federation of Journalists. From the Areej network, “Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism,” he resides in the United Kingdom, where he works as a news producer for Arab TV. He has been working in the television news and paper press since 2006 and has produced many political, cultural and social programs. He is a member of the International Federation of Journalists and the Syndicate of British Journalists.

He writes in the London-based Al-Arab newspaper, and Al-Jadeed Magazine. He worked as a broadcaster and presenter for television programs, editor-in-chief of the Emirati magazine “Al Dhafra” and a program producer for “Al Dhafra” channel. Then he joined Sky News Arabia and Al Jazeera Network in 2018, and worked at Al Jazeera E-Learning, then joined the Arab Television Network in London.

Literary career

He is a member of the International PEN Club and the Flemish PEN Club in Belgium. He was interested in the literature of Naguib Mahfouz, Alaa Al Aswany, Mourid Barghouti and other Arab novelists in his youth. His reading of history made him delve into writing novels, and he found himself inclined to documentation.

His first novel was published in 2011, “The Diaspora of the Spirit,” about the Palestinians of the diaspora.

The Syrian Trilogy

After "Diaspora of the Spirit", Abdallah Maksour continued his narrative of the Syrian civil war, especially in his novel trilogy "Days in Baba Amr" (2012), "Returning to Aleppo" (2013), "The Path of Pain" (2016), which is one of the first novels that delved into the details of the Syrian civil war.

He spoke in “Days in Baba Amr” about the Syrian revolution, which is the story of the speaker, and the novel consists of the journey of the writer who returned from a foreign country, to live the beginning of the revolution in mid-March 2011 and make some documentaries about it. It is considered the first literary novel about the Syrian revolution.

"Returning to Aleppo" is the fourth novel that was published, which is the second part of his first novel "Days in Baba Amr". It is an imagined biography, dominated by the tyrannical ego pronoun, which is the pronoun that haunted him in the days of Baba Amr, “confuses what he lived through during his childhood days and his studies there, with what he supposed / imagined that he lived through during his return to those areas in the current war conditions.” This was embodied in the narrator's journey with the French journalist from Aleppo to Al-Lataminah. Before the narrator reached Aleppo, he descended in Reyhanyia on the Turkish border, where he encountered refugee camps. Its events take place in the north of Syria and the central region, where the hero returns to complete his work on his first film on the Syrian revolution. In Nabil Suleiman's opinion, it is a novel that is soaked in blood, pain and anxiety, “Before and after that is a novel that does not fear blame for self-criticism and self-disgrace.” It is considered one of the prominent novels in Syrian political literature. It is the special novel that developed a detailed picture of the phase of the Syrian revolution in its early years.

Then "The Path of Pains", which is his fifth novel, and the conclusion of the novel trilogy on the Syrian civil war, and it classifies as the biographical novel. It is the story of the illegal immigration of a young Syrian man, who is the only narrator and is involved in the events and one of its heroes, and he is “the witness to the Syrian death distributed between the regime forces and the armed groups.”

The Iraqi Duology

His novel “Dust on Memory: The Road to Guantanamo” revolves around the invasion of Iraq, and he considered it as “a memoir of war and captivity, and violent psychological shocks. It is a type of the resistance literature, providing details from the Iraqi-American war secret, and standing against it.”

He chose the title of his sixth novel “2003” from the year of the invasion of Iraq and published it in 2021. The Beirut Newspaper described it as “a novel based on a tragic human reality, and preoccupied with the aesthetic of the narrative and the use of perfect language. Through this narrative, we enter into the dynamics of politics and the forces controlling the land of Iraq. It takes us back to the roots of families and the conflicts of the region. The novel talks about a country similar to the Arab countries and deals with the journey of “more than a hundred years of defeats and lost hopes” during the biography of its heroes, the first grandfather from 1907 until the end of the forties, then the life of the grandson from 1982 until 2005, and they are real characters.

Personal life

His mother is Ferial Abd Al Qadir Mousa and his wife is Rifqa Nabeel Shakoor.

Works

Some of his novels:

• The Diaspora of the Spirit (Original title: Shatat Al Rouh), 2011 (Radmik: 9789957302047)
• Dust on Memory: The Road to Guantanamo (Original title: Ghobar Ala Al Thakira: Al Tareek Ila Guantanamo), 2011 (Radmik: 9789957302627)
• Days in Baba Amr (Original title: Ayam Fi Baba Amr), 2012 (Radmik: 9789957303938)
• Returning to Aleppo (Original title: Aa’id Ila Halab), 2013 (Radmik: 9789957305116)
• The Path of Pain (Original title: Tareek Al ‘Alam), 2016 (Radmik: 9789957306922)
• ‘2003’, 2021 (Radmik: 9786144698389)

Also by him:

• The Sons of the Sea, an autobiography (Original title: Abnaa’ Al Bahr, seera thatia) (Radmik: 9788899687878)

References

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