Mina helped found the Syrian Writers Association in 1951, and the Arab Writers Union in the late ’60s. Many of his later works dealt with the theme of the sea, including his most famous one, “The Sail and the Storm.” His first novel, “The Blue Lamps,” was published in 1954.īut those early jobs always remained with him. He was a barber, a sailor and a porter on the docks until he began publishing stories in Syrian newspapers. The family moved back to Latakia when Turkey took over that area. Mina was born on March 9, 1924, in the Syrian coastal area of Latakia, and later lived in what is now southern Turkey as a young child, according to published accounts. “And he spent his whole life writing about ways in which social justice can be achieved in Syria.” “He was born at a time of great social and political change,” said Cathia Jenainati, a professor at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, who has studied Mr.
When the silk industry collapses because of new technology and cheap imports, the family’s already precarious lives are thrown into even greater turmoil. Mina’s to be translated into English, “Fragments of Memory,” is a semi-autobiographical novel about a poor, troubled family in rural northern Syria, also set during the French Mandate.
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