Siba'i Uthman

Siba'i Ahmad Uthman (Arabic: أحمد السباعي; born 1938) is a Saudi journalist, author and short story writer.[1] He was born in 1938 in the Sudan and studied at the College of Arts in Khartoum before commencing a career in journalism. Among Uthman's works are several volumes of short stories including Silence and the Walls and Circles in the Book of Time. His short story Silence and the Walls appeared in English translation in a 1988 anthology of Arabian literature edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi.

Literary career

He was a publisher for Al Nadwa (newspaper) newspaper and founded Quraish Press.[2][3] Uthman founded the first theatre in Mecca, the Dar Quraish for Islamic Narrative Drama.[4]

References

1. Biographical details in p.550, The Literature of Modern Arabia (ed. S.K. Jayyusi), Kegan Paul International, 1988
2. "أحمد السباعي.. شيخ المؤرخين". جريدة الرياض (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
3. "مدونة الإسلام الواعي:الأديب السعودى أحمد السباعى (الطفولة الخالدة وحديث الذكريات) د. إبراهيم عوض". Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
4. "الحارثي : المسرح السعودي دون امرأة .. ناقص • صحيفة المرصد". صحيفة المرصد (in Arabic). 2016-01-21. Archived from the original on 22 January 2016. Retrieved 2019-05-21.