Halim Barakat

Halim Barakat (Arabic: حليم بركات December 4, 1931 - June 22, 2023 [1]) was a Syrian American novelist and sociologist.

He was born into a Greek-Orthodox Arab family in Kafroun, Syria, and raised in Beirut.

He received his PhD in social psychology in 1966 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

From 1976 until 2002 he was Teaching Research Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies of Georgetown University.

His novel Six Days (Sitat Ayam, 1961) is prophetically named for a real war yet to come in 1967; as such, it became a prelude to the later novel Days of Dust ('Awdat al-Ta'ir ila al-Bahr, 1969), which unfolds the existential drama of the June War of 1967.

Al-Hawīyah: Azmat al-ḥadāthah wa-al-wa`y al-taqlīdī [Identity: An Encounter Between Modernity and Tradition] (in Arabic).

Barakat, Halim Isber, (2000) "Adonis, Poete Du Reel e de Son Oppose."

(Adonis, Poet of Reality and his Opposite) Traduit de L'Arabe par Francois Zabbal, Adonis: Un Poete Dans Le Monde d'Aujourd'hui, 1950-2000, Paris: Institut Du Monde Arabe, 2000, pp.

Barakat, Halim Isber, (2000) "Explorations in Exile and Creativity: The Case of Arab-American Writers."

Al-dimocratiyya Wal-’Adāla Al-Ijtima`iyya [Democracy and Social Justice] (in Arabic).

Harb al-khalīj: khutut fi al-raml al-zaman [Gulf War: Lines in Sand and Time] (in Arabic).

), Theory, Politics And The Arab World: Critical Responses, N. Y. and London: Routledge, 1990, pp 132-159.

From the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies' symposium, North Africa Today: Issues of Development and Integration, held at Georgetown University (1982).

), Women and the Family in the Middle East: New Voices of Change, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985, pp 27-48.

(1979) Der Schnee Wird Mir Nicht Die Augen Schliessen, (The Snow Won’t Close My Eyes) from Sam Kabbani and Horst Erdman Verlag, The Dove of the Mosque and Other Syrian and Lebanese Stories, Horst Erdman Verlag, pp.

(1979) Al-Rahīl baina al-sahm wa al-watar, A Journey Between The Arrow and The Cord .

Barakat, Halim, 1977 Le Vaisseau Reprend Le Large (a translation of awdat al-ta'ir ila al-bahr into French by Claude Krul with an introduction by Jacques Berque), Canada: Edition Namaan.

Barakat, Halim Isber (1975) Socio-Economic, Cultural, and Personality Forces Determining Development in Arab Society.

), Studies in Modern Arabic Literature, London: Aris and Philips, pp.

Barakat, Halim Isber, (1969) Days of Dust (Awdat Altair Ila albahr).

The Three Continents Press Barakat, Halim Isber, (1969) “Alienation: A Process of Encounter Between Utopia and Reality.” The British Journal of Sociology, vol.

Barakat, Halim Isber, (1969) "Alienation and Revolution in Contemporary Arab Life.” Mawaqif Journal, No.

(1971) The Displaced: Uprooting and Exile - A Socio-Scientific Study النازحون: اقتلاع ونفي ـ دراسة اجتماعية علمية.

Mark A. Chesler, Halim Isber Barakat, University of Michigan Center for Research on Utilization of Scientific Knowledge.

Publisher: Center for Research on Utilization of Scientific Knowledge, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1967-1968.

Alienation from the School System; Its Dynamics and Structure, Ph.D dissertation., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Barakat, Halim Isber, (1963) Un Visage Neuf,(Silence and Rain) translated into French by Michel Barbot, Alger Republicain, Nos.

No 25 Barakat, Halim Isber, (1962) La Neige Ne Me Formera Pas Les Yeux, (Silence and Rain) translated into French by Michel Barbot, Orient, annee 6, No 23, 1962.

* Barakat, Halim Isber, (1961) Sitat Ayam (Six Days), a novel in Arabic.

The Three Continents Press/Lynne Rienner Barakat, Halim Isber, (1958) al-samt wa al-matar (Silence and Rain).