Haidar Haidar (Arabic: حيدر حيدر) (born 1936 in Husayn al-Baher) is a Syrian writer and novelist .
His novel Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr was banned in several Arab countries, and even resulted in a belated angry reaction from the clerics of Al-Azhar University upon reprinting in Egypt in the year 2000. The clerics issued a Fatwa banning the novel, and accused Haidar of heresy and offending Islam. Al-Azhar University students staged huge protests against the novel, that eventually led to its confiscation.
Al-Fahd (الفهد) The Cheetah, 1968.Az-Zaman al-Muhish (الزمن الموحش) The Desolate Time, 1973.Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr (وليمة لأعشاب البحر) A Feast for the Seaweeds, 1983.Maraya an-Nar (مرايا النار) The Mirrors of Fire.Shumous al-Ghajar (شموس الغجر) The Suns of Gypsies, 1996.Haql Urjuwan (حقل أرجوان) A Field of Purple, 2000.Marathi al-Ayyam (مراثي الأيام), The Elegies of Days, 2001.Hakaya an-Nawrass al-Muhajir (حكايا النورس المهاجر) Tales of the Migrating Seagull, 1968.Al-Wamdh (الومض) The flash, 1970.Al-Faiadhan (الفيضان) The Flood, 1975.Al-Wu'ul (الوعول) The Ibecis, 1978.At-Tamawujat (التموجات) The Ripples, 1982.Ghasaq al-Aalihah (غسق الآلهة) The Dusk of Gods, 1994.Capucci (كبوتشي) biography of Capucci, 1978.Awraq al-Manfa (أوراق المنفى) Exile Papers, 1993.Olumona (علومنا) Our Sciences.