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Rafiq Shami is a Syrian novelist, born in 1946 in Damascus, Syria. In 1965, he established the wall magazine “Al Manthal” in his neighborhood and it continued to be published until 1970. He traveled to Germany in 1971, working in workshops and factories, in addition to his studies, from 1971-1979, where he obtained a doctorate in organometallic chemistry. He worked in a large pharmaceutical company from 1980 until 1982, when he submitted his resignation to devote himself to literature. In 1980, he established with other foreign writers the literary group "South Wind" and the union of foreign artists "Polykunst". Together with his colleagues in the South Wind group, he issued 13 volumes containing elites of literature of foreign women writers and writers in Germany from 1980 to 1985. Selections from his works: Second Legends 1979 The Last Speech of the Wandering Rat 1984 (a collection of miraculous stories) Hallab-al-Dhafba 1985 (stories from Damascus) The First Crossing of the Needle-hole 1985 (miraculous stories) Bobo and Soso 1986 (children's book) A Hand Filled with Stars 1987 (novel) Legends Maaloula 1987 (Myths and Miraculous Stories) Nostalgia Travels Without a Travel Card 1988 (Stories from Exile) Storytellers of the Night 1989 (novel) The Wonder Box 1990 (Children's Book) From the Magic of the Tongue 1991 (essays on the topic of writing in a foreign language) The Flying Tree 1992 (Wonderful Stories) The Honest Liar 1992 (novel) That's Not a Parrot 1994 (children's book) Flaming Iceberg 1995 (essays on life in exile) The Raven on its Beak 1995 (children's book) A Journey Between Night and Morning 1995 (novel) Fatima and the Thief of Dreams 1996 (children's book) Olive Seed 1997 (satirical articles) Birth of 1997 (novel) The Secret Report on Goethe 1999 (fictional novel) Seven Actors 1999 (novel) Hanin al-Sunun 2000 (children's novel) With Strange Eyes 2002 (diaries for a year after September 11, 2001) The color of words 2002 (Stories with Watercolors from Root Lip) How I Rid My Father of His Fear of Strangers 2 003 (children's book) The Dark Face of Love 2004 (100 Years of Forbidden Love) In the Heart Damascus 2006 (Selections from Thirty Years' Cultural and Political Essays) Sharp Camel in Heidelberg 2006 (Children's Stories Selections)