Khairy Alzahaby (Arabic: خيري الذهبي; 11 January 1946 – 4 July 2022) was a Syrian novelist, historian, columnist, and scenarist.
He was prevented from traveling, withdrew his passport,[3] was fired from his job as a result of his political activity and signed statements against Hafez al-Assad's regime in 1991.
He was an independent liberal political social activist, wrote more than 1000 articles in Arab newspapers, and lectured in many cities around the world such as Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Istanbul, Salzburg, Amman, Dubai, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, Algeria and Casablanca.
thesis in the Department of Arabic Literature was written about his novel Time in Space at Al-Baath University in Homs.
[6] Alzahaby[10] prepared, documented and presented a chain of books for the benefit of the Ministry of Culture, under the title of "the Horizons of Damascus"..