. . . "Syrian writer" . . . "\u0633\u0644\u064A\u0645 \u0628\u0631\u0643\u0627\u062A / Sel\u00EEm Berekat"@en . . "1951Z"^^ . . "Barakat, Salim"@en . "Salim Barakat"@en . "Salim Barakat (Arabic: \u0633\u0644\u064A\u0645 \u0628\u0631\u0643\u0627\u062A\u200E, Kurdish: Sel\u00EEm Berekat\u200E) (b. Qamishli, 1951) is a Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet. He was brought up in Qamishli in northern Syria and spent most of his youth there. In 1970 he moved to Damascus to study Arabic literature but after one year he moved to Beirut where he stayed until 1982. While in Beirut he published five volumes of poetry, a diary and two volumes of autobiography."@en . .