AMMAN — Google celebrated late Saudi Novelist Abdul Rahman
Munif with a Google Doodle on what would have been his 90th birthday.
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The doodle was seen in many countries in the region,
including UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iraq, Libya, Jordan, and Morocco.
Born in 1933 in Amman to Saudi parents, he moved to Baghdad
to study law and was later based in Cairo, earning a doctorate in petroleum economics
at the University of Belgrade in 1961.
He had a career in the oil industry as an economist before
he began his writing journey. He began to write in the 1970s after he left his
job in Iraq and moved to Damascus.
With 15 novels to his name and nine non-fiction books, the
late writer who died in Damascus in 2004 at the age of 70 is considered a
powerhouse of literary creativity in the region.
He continues to be well-known in the Arab world and
internationally as a towering intellectual who wrote about the transformation
of this region from the pre-oil into the modern era through his five-part
literary series Mudun Al-Milh (Cities of Salt) which he started to write in
1984 and completed in 1989.
Connection with Jordan
His connection with Jordan was the book he wrote about Amman
published in Arabic in 1994 about his early childhood in the Kingdom.
In 1998, the book was translated into English under the
title of Story of a "City: A Childhood in Amman."
His writing, which closely related to his background focused
on many social development issues and the shift in the region after the oil
boom.
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