Saturday, January 24, 2004

Abd ar-Rahman Munif

Abd ar-Rahman Munif, one of today's greatest Arab writers, has died. He is best know for his trilogy Cities of Salt, chronicling the fortunes of the fictional sultanate of Mooran, which sounds suspiciously like Saudi Arabia in the 20th century.

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