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Musa Rahum Abbas Author

Musa Rahum Abbas is a highly regarded Syrian poet, fiction writer, and academic who has the freedom to speak the truth about Syria, since he has lived for many years in Saudi Arabia where he works as a scholar and fiction writer. He is the author of a volume of poetry (al-Afilun), a novel (Bilan), and a collection of short stories (Buruq Ala Thuqub Sawda). Musa Al-Halool is a scholar, translator, and writer from Syria who has lived in Amman and now is based at Taif University in Saudi Arabia. He has translated to or from Arabic about 40 books. Musa Al-Halool and Sanna Dhahir translated from Arabic White Carnations, a collection of short stories about the Syrian revolution by Musa Rahum Abbas (also in the Cune Classics catalog).