Nihad Sirees (Arabic: نهاد سيريس; born 1950, Aleppo, Syria) is a Syrian writer of contemporary fiction and screenwriter.
Sirees emerged as a fiction writer in the 1980s, and has written novels, plays, and scripts for TV dramas.
Among his notable works are the historical novel The North Winds and the TV series The Silk Market, which has been translated for screening into English, Persian and German.
His second novel States of Passion, translated by Max Weiss, was published by Pushkin Press in 2018.
In the wake of the Arab Spring, Sirees was targeted for heightened surveillance by the Syrian government, and went into exile in 2012.