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Rufaida al-Khabbaz
Jamal Saeed
BIO
Biography

Jamal Saeed is a Syrian-Canadian writer who fled the ongoing conflict in Syria with his family and came to Canada in December 2016. His first short-story collection, The Suns’ Crazy Girls, was published in Arabic in 1993. He is the co-author, with Sharon McKay, of Yara’s Spring (Annick Press, 2020), and with Jordan Scott of the picture book My Sister the Apple Tree (Random House Studio, Penguin Random House, 2025). His books also include My Road from Damascus, his memoir, and Princess Nai and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction, both published by ECW Press. Jamal lives and works in Kingston, Ontario.

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