Khairy Alzahaby
Khairy Alzahaby () is a Syrian novelist, thinker, historian, columnist and scenarist. He was born in Damascus, Syria in 1946. Alzahaby headed to Egypt in the early sixties to pursue his high study at the university of Cairo. He graduated with a degree in Arabic literature, and was educated writers such as Taha Hussein and Naguib Mahfouz. Politically he was always opposed to the regime in Syria, which made him face severe difficulties in his work and his life. He was one of the supporters of the Damascus Declaration,He was prevented from traveling, withdrew his passport, was fired  from his job as a result of his political activity and signed statements against Hafez al-Assad's regime in 1991. He sided with the 2011 revolution in Syria against the regime, and then left the country to Egypt and then to the UAE and then Jordan and then Europe. He is an independent liberal political social activist, wrote more than 1000 articles in Arab newspapers, and has lectured in many cities around the world such as Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Istanbul, Salzburg, Amman, Dubai, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, Algeria and Casablanca. Dozens of doctoral dissertations on his work have been written . Bibliography. Researchers. Alzahaby prepared, documented and presented a chain of books for the benefit of the Ministry of Culture, under the title of "the Horizons of Damascus".. Such as: His novel "Hasseeba" was chosen by the Arab League one of the 100 great arabs novels in the last century. .. Damascus..1975