Faisal Khartash emerged as a member of the Arab Writers Union as well as a member of the Union of Arab Journalists, where he began publishing his first articles in 1975 and has been a correspondent for the Al-esboa Al-adabi newspaper since its first issue and for more than five years. He was appointed literary correspondent for the London-based Newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat and continues to write there today; he also writes regularly in Al-Hayat (London), Al Bayan (Dubai) and Al-Thawra (Damascus).
He began writing in 1973 and emerged as a story writer on the university's pulpits and published his first stories in 1975 in Syrian newspapers. His first collection, News, was published in 1986 by the Ministry of Culture; and another, the Women's Tree, from the Ministry of Culture in 2001.[2]
He won several awards in the short story, including the first prize in the Arab Writers Union, as well as the first prize in the short story of al-Baath newspaper on the 40th anniversary and the magazine Al-Vanguard, the Medhat Akash Award, the Labtani Short Story Award and the Cairo Literary News Award for the short story.[3]
His novel The Summary of the Pasha's History, which was printed in London in 1990, won the Riad al-Rais Prize for Arabic Fiction, and his novel the Dust of Strangers received the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Arabic Fiction in 1995 and was transformed into a film directed by Samir Dhikra; the film won the first prize at the Cairo International Film Festival in 1998.[4]
