Imad Hakki (Arabic: عماد حقي) is a Syrian chess international master who represented Syria in multiple regional chess championship and the son of Badi' Hakki, a writer and novelist.
Hakki attended the Soviet Cultural Center in the seventies where he was taught professional chess by Ahmad Al-Rashidi.
[3] However, he went on to win that year's men's Arab Chess championship in Aden.
[2] After his championship in Jordan and the rise of the Syrian Civil War, Imad's health deteriorated considerably, and he had to get surgery for his eyelids, which the Syrian chess union didn't pay.
[9] Hakki later contracted Alzheimer's disease and became homeless, sleeping in the streets and parks of Damascus.