The great writer and novelist
Mohammad Iqbal Harb

Finally, after waiting, I hugged my children tenderly as I received the printed copies of my books, waiting for the publisher to send me the agreed-upon copies. Indeed, the birth of a book in a foreign country invites you to embrace it like a child after a long absence.                                  

Mohammad Iqbal Harb
Mohammad Iqbal Harb was born in the village of Shamstar in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon and raised in Sad El-Bouchrieh in Mount Lebanon. He is a Lebanese writer and novelist. He studied nursing at the American University of Beirut and optometry in the United States. He worked at Reitna Associates in Boston as a supervisor of sub-clinics and then moved to work as an optometrist in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He is the Vice President of the World Union of Arab Intellectuals for Cultural Affairs. He is the General Coordinator of the Cultural Authority at the Mediterranean Organization for the Development of Cultures. He has authored several works of short stories, novels, and essays, including: Here Lies the Seductress, The Truth, The Lover of Oblivion, Death of a Poetess, Birth of a Poet, Down with the Regime, The New Blind, and The Damned Sacred.