Hassan Daoud

Hassan Daoud (Arabic: حسن داوود, romanized: Ḥasan Dāwūd; born 1950) is a Lebanese writer and journalist.

[1] Originally from the village of Noumairieh in southern Lebanon, he moved to Beirut as a child with his family.

During the Lebanese civil war that broke out in 1975, he worked as a journalist, a profession he has pursued ever since.

At present he edits Nawafez, the cultural supplement of the Beiruti newspaper al-Mustaqbal.

[3] Daoud has published eight novels and two volumes of short stories.

Hassan Daoud (centre) at the Shubbak festival, July 2011 London