Muhammed Abu Maatouk (; born 1950) is a Syrian playwright, screenwriter and novelist.
/ref> He was born in Aleppo
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, and studied Arabic at Aleppo University
University of Aleppo (, also called Aleppo University) is a public university located in Aleppo, Syria. It is the second largest university in Syria after the University of Damascus.
During 2005–06, the university had over 61,000 undergraduate ...
. He has written numerous plays, novels, short stories and screenplays. His first novel ''The Tree of Speech'' was published in 1990, while ''The Bottle and the Genie'' (2008) was longlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) (), also known as "the Arabic Booker", is regarded as the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world.
Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing ...
in 2009.
Abu Maatouk wrote the screenplay of ''Abu Zayd al-Hilali'', an epic TV series based on the life of the 11th-century Arab leader which was first shown on Abu Dhabi TV
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in 2004.
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1950 births
Writers from Aleppo
Syrian novelists
Living people
University of Aleppo alumni
Date of birth missing (living people)
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