Writers from Damascus

Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher (1923-1998)

Ismāʿīl bin ʿAlī bin Maḥmūd bin Muḥammad bin ʿUmar bin Shāhanshāh bin Ayyūb bin Shādī bin Marwān (), better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda (; November 127327 October 1331), was a Mamluk-era Kurdish geographer, historian, Ayyubid prince and local governor of Hama.

1st-century BC historian and philosopher

Shams ad-Dīn Al Dhahabī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was a Syrian Sunni Muslim historian, biographer, and hadith scholar. He authored major biographical and historical works including ''Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, and Tarikh al-Islam''.

Argentinian writer (1937–2005)

Syrian-German writer and chemist (born 1946)

writer, journalist, novelist

Syrian Writer of Short stories, Newspaper Columnist, Newspaper Editor

Muslim scholar

arab intellectual (1856–1885)

Syrian writer

Ottoman jurisprudence expert

Syrian historian

Syrian activist

Syrian writer

Syrian writer

Syrian poet (1895-1959)

Syrian diplomat (1947–2020)

Syrian illustrator and author

Syrian novelist (1912-2007)

Syrian Muslim historian and faqih

thumb|Early manuscript of the ʿUyūn al-tawārīkh Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Shākir al-Dārānī al-Dimashqī al-Kutubī (1287–1363) was a Syrian merchant and historian.

French writer, screenwriter and journalist (1928-2003)

Syrian writer, poet and journalist

Islamic scholar and writer

Swedish poet

Badr al-Din al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Dimashqi al-Saffuri al-Burini (July 1556-11 June 1615), commonly known as al-Hasan al-Burini, was a Damascus-based Ottoman Arab historian and poet and Shafi'i jurist.

Syrian-born Lebanese writer and poet

Syrian-Canadian novelist, public speaker, columnist, and a gay refugee activist

Syrian-born activist, now a refugee in Germany holding German citizenship.

American writer (1928-2022)

Syrian writer and translator born in Damascus

Syrian novelist and thinker

Syrian historian and writer (1905 - 1987)

Syrian author

Syrian-American writer and university professor

Syrian lawyer, writer and TV presenter

actress

Syrian novelist

Damascene scholar (1475–1546)

syrian-Canadian author and human rights activist

British Syrian cultural historian, writer and broadcaster

Mexican writer of Syrian origin (1948-2000)

syrian-Palestinian journalist and peace activist

Syrian-Lebanese poet and painter

10th-century Islamic scholar and writer

Syrian writer

Syrian historian

Syrian-French writer and translator