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Arab Gateway: Abdelrahman Munif - English
URL: http://www.al-bab.com/arab/literature/munif.htm

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Abdelrahman Munif was born in Jordan in 1933 into a trading family of Saudi Arabian origin. He was stripped of his Saudi citizenship for political reasons. He studied law at Baghdad and Cairo universities and took a PhD in oil economics at the University of Belgrade. During his oil industry career he served as director of crude oil marketing. In Baghdad he edited a monthly periodical, al-Naft wa al-Tanmiyya (Oil and Development). He later became a full-time writer and spent the rest of his life in Syria. He died on 24 January 2004.

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Abdelrahman Munif - English
URL: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/munif.htm

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Jordanian-born Arabic-language novelist and economist who began his career as a writer of fiction relatively late in life. Munif is one of the most prominent Arab novelists to have used modernist narrative techniques. His best-known work is the monumental quintet, Cities of Salt (1984-89), set in an unnamed Arab state of the Gulf. The story chronicles the transformation of a traditional desert society following the discovery of oil. It also reflects Munif's wide variety of experience in oil marketing.

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