Turki al-Hamad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Turki al-Hamad

Saudi Arabian writer

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1953

Place of Birth: Jordan

Profession: journalist

Nationality: Saudi Arabia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Turki al-Hamad (Arabic: ???? ??????, Turki al-?amad) is a Saudi Arabian political analyst, journalist, and novelist, best known for his trilogy about the coming-of-age of Hisham al-Abir, a Saudi Arabian teenager, the first installment of which, Adama, was published in 1998.
Although banned in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait, the Arabic edition of the trilogy — called in Arabic Atyaf al-Aziqah al-Mahjurah (Phantoms of the Deserted Alley) — has sold 20,000 copies. The novels explore the issues of sexuality, underground political movements, scientific truth, rationalism, and religious freedom against the backdrop of the late 1960s and early 1970s, a volatile period in Saudi Arabia, sandwiched between the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 oil crisis.
Hamad is quoted on the cover of one of his novels: "Where I live there are three taboos: religion, politics and sex.
It is forbidden to speak about these.
I wrote this trilogy to get things moving." [1] As a result of his work, four fatwas have been issued against him by the country's religious clerics, and he has been named as an apostate in a statement by al-Qaeda.
[2] He continues nevertheless to live in Riyadh, calling the fatwas "more of a nuisance than anything else," according to the Daily Star.
[3]