Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Born in July, 5, 1975, Being an unsuccessful husband and a university graduate with three languages, I travelled abroad and worked for the UN for six years during which I was able to visit a lot of countries and befriended a lot of people of different castes, races, cultures, religions and languages. Although on the Earth, sometimes my colleagues and I lived in the real paradise, five-star hotels, luxurious cars… but most of the time we were in the hell: hunger, fear of insects, wild animals and bandits in addition to the freezing cold or burning heat without any mechanical, electric or electronic device or machine.
It’s funny to have money but not to find anything to buy. Sometimes, we wished we had been able to make a salad of banknotes. Nevertheless, one has to be on bended knees in respect for the good and kind local citizens who could bear the abject poverty, biting hunger, illiteracy, isolation… and completely aware of their rulers’ and decision makers’ corruption, but helpless, unable to do anything against them because the armies of those rulers are ready to shoot to kill anytime, anywhere in their countries.
That was the subject of my book ‘She promised The Moon’.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
She Promised The Moon
I experienced the events in the story and fictionised them.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I do two things daily: The first is ‘I work’. The second is I either read or write even when I’m off, in holidays and weekends.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
George Bernard Shaw, Vex Gerald,Mark Twain, Hemingway, William Somerset Mom and the classic Russian writers.
What are you working on now?
I’m writing a new story. It’s word number is ± 75 K, Theme: Which is more important: Blood relationship or interests. Literature.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
In addition to social media sites: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn… , Amazon, B&N…
Do you have any advice for new authors?
They have to write as much as they can, then self-edit and finally ask some readers; friends, relatives, colleagues to read what they write and listen to their comments and recommendations.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
In writing: Write, write and write.
In Life: Either you eat or be eaten.
What are you reading now?
‘Yellow Fever’, a play- tragedy
What’s next for you as a writer?
A writer? I dream to be a real writer.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
– Arms and The Man by G.B. Shaw
– Huckleberry Finn by Hemingway
-Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Mom.
– War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy