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Omar Yussef
Omar Yussef is a fictional character and the hero of a series of crime novels by Welsh writer Matt Rees. Character biography Early life According to the novels, Omar Yussef Subhi Sirhan, also known as Abu Ramiz (the father of Ramiz), was born in 1948 in Malha, a destroyed Palestinian village south of Jerusalem (''The Collaborator of Bethlehem'', Soho Crime, New York, February 2007). His father, the village mukhtar, or headman, fled with his family and the other villagers, on the creation of the Israeli state in the spring of that year. The Sirhan family went to the Dehaisha Refugee Camp, set up in fields south of Bethlehem. Omar's father rented a home, and Omar continues to lease the same stone house. Career Omar attended Damascus University and became involved in student politics. It was at University that he met Khamis Zeydan, a young Palestinian nationalist and a refugee from the coastal town of Jaffa, who later became police chief in Bethlehem. Omar's adherence to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Rees
Matthew Beynon Rees is a Welsh novelist and journalist. He is the author of The Palestine Quartet, a series of crime novels about Omar Yussef, a Palestinian sleuth, and of historical novels and thrillers. He is the winner of a Crime Writers' Association Dagger for his crime fiction in the UK and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for fiction in the US. His first book was a work of nonfiction, ''Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East'' in 2004 (Free Press), about Israeli and Palestinian societies. ''The New York Times'' called ''The Collaborator of Bethlehem'', the first of his Palestinian crime novels about Bethlehem sleuth Omar Yussef, "an astonishing first novel." Le Figaro'' called the book "a masterpiece." Rees's writing has been compared with the work of Graham Greene, John le Carré, Georges Simenon and Henning Mankell. The French magazine L'Express called him "the Dashiell Hammett of Palestine." Rees's books have sold in 25 languages. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |