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Ahmad Zatari

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Ahmad Zatari
Born (1979-12-20) 20 December 1979 (age 44)
Amman
OccupationWriter, Novelist
Nationality Jordanian
Notable works
  • Leaning Over the Corpse of Amman
  • What To Do Without Calvino?
  • "The Worker" in Iraq + 100
  • "The Darwinist" in Strange Horizons

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Ahmad Zatari (Arabic: أحمد الزعتري‎, (Aḥmad aZ-Zaʿtarī); born 1980) is a Jordanian novelist and writer from Amman.

Biography[edit]

Ahmad Zatari, from Jordan is an independent journalist as well as a writer. He has currently published two books with another forthcoming.[1] He wrote for the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar as a cultural correspondent and was also a program coordinator for the Freemuse Foundation in the Middle East and North Africa, which supports the freedom of expression in music. With this experience he founded the website www.ma3azef.com, which specialises detailed articles and studies on music in the Arab world.

In 2014, Zatari's novel Leaning Over the Corpse of Amman was banned in Jordan.[2] The portrayal of a post-apocalyptic Amman included themes that the authorities found offensive. [3]

Bibliography in Arabic[edit]

Diaa has released eight novels and three short story collections in Arabic.

Novels/Novellas[edit]

  • 2014: Leaning Over the Corpse of Amman (الإنحناء على جثّة عمّان al-ʾinḥinā ʿalā juṯṯat ʿammān)

Short Story Collections[edit]

Articles[edit]

  • 2015 May 8, "Narrative and Memory", The Arab Ambassador
  • Ahmad Zatari has other articles written in Arabic.

English translations[edit]

Awards and honours[edit]

References[edit]

  1. "Ahmad Zatari Biography". ZKM Center for Art and Media. Aug 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  2. "Jordan's Press Fights Back Against Censorship—Online". Newsweek. 4 June 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  3. "Beyond the Text - Ahmad Zatari's Leaning Over the Corpse of Amman". Al Jazeera. 8 January 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2022.

Further reading[edit]


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