قامات الزبد

Jordanian novelist and writer, born in Amman in 1948, obtained a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Beirut Arab University. He worked in cultural journalism during the years 1977-1979, and participated in editing the cultural magazine Al-Mahd, and the poet Taher Riyad participated in the management of Manarat Publishing House during the years 1980 -1991, and then founded Azmina House for Publishing and Distribution in 1992, where he works as its director. He is one of the founders of the Jordanian Publishers Association, and he is a member of the aforementioned union, the Union of Arab Writers and Writers, and the Jordanian Writers Association, of which he served as a member of its administrative board for several sessions. His novel Qamat al-Zabad won the State Encouragement Award for the year 1990, and he won the State Appreciation Award in the field of short story in 1997. He also won the Mahmoud Seif Al-Din Iranian Short Story Award from the Jordanian Writers Association, and the Association had awarded him the award for best short story collection for the year 1982 for his one collection Twenty bullets for the Prophet. His books: The Short Story: The Slap Baghdad, Ministry of Culture, 1978. Amman's Birds Fly Low, Beirut: The Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing, 1981. Twenty-one Shots of the Prophet, Beirut: The Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing, 1982. Who Plows the Sea, Amman: Dar Manarat, 1986. The Secrets of the Sand Hour, Beirut: The Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing, 1991. Angels in the Open, Amman: Dar Azmanah, 1997. Winter Under the Roof (selections) Greater Amman Municipality, 2002. Who I Saw Was I (volume of the six collections) Azmina House, Amman, The Arab Foundation, Beirut 2002. Fields of Shadows, Dar Azmina, Amman, 2002