حجر السرائر

Nabil Suleiman was born in Safita in 1945, and received his education in Lattakia, and obtained a BA in Arabic in 1967. He worked as a teacher and founded the Al-Hiwar Publishing House in Lattakia, where he devoted himself to writing since 1990. In the early eighties, the novelist built a palace in the village of Al-Boudi, which is located Twenty kilometers from Jableh and 600 meters above the sea overlooking the beaches of Baniyas to Latakia, he moved his library there: “I have lived in isolation since 1987, freezing to read and write. Only the full-time one knows the pleasure of reading and writing.” And Nabil Suleiman has known this pleasure since 1982 until now. Nabil was appointed as an Arabic language teacher in Raqqa in 1969, surrounded by a number of communist friends who influenced him. His writings carried a Marxist breath, which made “report writers think that I am a member of this or that faction.” His historical friendship with Bouali Yassin, the critic of everything, strengthened Nabil Suleiman's critical sense of everything, and his reluctance to engage in parties. One of the fruits of this friendship was their joint book “Ideology and Literature in Syria”, published by Ibn Khaldun House, and then together they embarked on the adventure of leaving for Beirut in the spring of 1979, leaving two families behind, running behind the dream of living in “the Palestinian-Lebanese space, the space of the revolution and the raging civil war.” The two writers met in Lebanon with Mahdi Amel, Youmna Al-Eid, Majed Abu Sharar, George Tarabishi, Saadallah, Nous and others. They also met Suleiman Sobh, who founded Ibn Rushd House, and their fame quickly spread. Yassin and Suleiman wrote another joint book and published it at the house entitled “Cultural Battles in Syria.”