Ziyad Qasim
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Ziyad Qasim | |
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| Born | 1945 Amman |
| Died | 3 August 2007 (aged 61–62) Hussein Medical Center, Amman |
| Occupation(s) | Writer and novelist |
Ziyad Qasim (Arabic: زياد قاسم) (1945–2007) was a novelist and writer from Amman, Jordan.[1][2][3] He wrote several novels that were very popular in Jordan.[4]
Ziyad Qassem was born in Amman, the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in 1945. He entered the University of Jordan in 1965. He obtained a BA in accounting in 1969 and a MA in accounting from the University of Brighton in Britain in 1983. He worked as an accountant in insurance field and navigation until 1978, operations manager in maritime navigation until 1983, and accounting and banking marketing coach at the Jordan Management Institute until 1995. He retired in 1995.[5][6]
His book Abnae al qalaa (Sons of the Castle) was named one of the fifty most important Arabic novels of the twentieth century by The National.[7]
