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by Abd al-Rahman Munif
Abd al-Rahman Munif was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1933 to a Saudi father and an Iraqi mother. Munif grew up in the Jordanian capital and went on to study law in universities in the Iraqi city of Baghdad and the Egyptian city of Cairo. He completed his doctorate in petroleum economics at the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia, then worked as a petroleum economist in Syria and later for OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries). While in Baghdad, he edited the monthly journal al-Naft wa al-tanmiyah (Oil and Development). Munif began writing fiction in the early 1970s and in 1973 published his first novel, al-Ashjar wa ightiyal marzuq (The Trees and the Assassination of Marzuq), about an Arab intellectual psychologically damaged by political despotism. In 1977 he published Nihayat (1977; Endings, 1988), his first novel about the Bedouin of the Arabian Peninsula. By 1981 Munif...
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