Fadi Azzam Author

Fadi Azzam was born in 1973 in Swaida, Southern Syria, but like many compatriots of his generation he was forced to leave his beloved Damascus and settle in the United Arab Emirates. He is an acclaimed free-lance journalist, whose work regularly features in Al Quds Al Arabi and his first collection of short stories Thahtaniat was published in March 2010. Adam Talib is the translator of Khairy Shalaby's The Hashish Waiter and Mekkawi Said's Cairo Swan Song, and is pursuing a doctorate in Arabic literature at Oxford.