Suhayl Idris (1925 – February 19, 2008) was a Lebanese novelist, short-story writer, journalist and translator.
[citation needed] Idriss returned to Beirut in 1952 where he founded Al Adab, a monthly literary journal that became one of the leading periodicals of its kind.
[1] Several of his novels have autobiographical themes, including al-Hayy al-Latini (1954) and al-Khandaq al-ghamiq (1958).
[2] Idris also translated many European works, including most of Jean-Paul Sartre[2] and Albert Camus.
He had a pro-Nasserist and Arab nationalist political stance.