About Suhayl Idris
Lived 1923 – 2008 (aged 84–85). Suhayl Idris was a Lebanese linguist, writer, journalist and translator.
Suhayl Idris (1925 – February 19, 2008) was a Lebanese novelist, short-story writer, journalist and translator.
Biography Idris studied in Beirut before going on to study in Paris and receive a PhD from Sorbonne. His first collection, Ashwaq, was published in 1947. Idriss returned to Beirut in 1952 where he founded Al Adab, a monthly literary journal that became one of the leading periodicals of its kind. Several of his novels have autobiographical themes, including al-Hayy al-Latini (1954) and al-Khandaq al-ghamiq (1958). and Albert Camus. He had a pro-Nasserist and Arab nationalist political stance.
Idris died on February 19, 2008.
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Lebanese writer (1923–2008)
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Suhayl Idris was born in 1923 in Beirut.
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Suhayl Idris died on 19 February 2008 in Beirut.
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Suhayl Idris was a linguist, writer, journalist and translator.
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Suhayl Idris was Lebanese.
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