Nidah Sirees author biography, plus links to books by Nidah Sirees.

Nidah Sirees

Nihad Sirees is a celebrated Syrian novelist, playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Aleppo in 1950 and lived there until 2012. He has written TV dramas and six novels, including Cancer, The North Winds, A Case of Passion and The Silence And The Roar, which was penned in 2004 during a period of 'internal exile'. His TV series The Silk Market received widespread acclaim across the Middle East and remains popular today. Under constant surveillance by security services and intense pressure by the regime, he was forced to leave Syria for Cairo in January, 2012. He later entered into a five-month International Writers Fellowship at Brown University during the fall of 2012, where he currently resides. His children and extended family remain in Aleppo.

This biography was last updated on 03/05/2013.

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