Al Shaar

Ghiját al-Mawsilí (Ghias Mousli), a doctor from Homs in Syria, who studied and for many years lived in Czechoslovakia, translates from Czech and Slovak literature from the last two centuries. The Al Shaar publishing house has brought out his translations of works by Božena Němcová (Babička, 2009), Jaroslav Hašek (Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války, 2010), Jiří Kratochvil (Slib, 2011; Lehni, bestie!, 2013), Stanislav Komárek (Černý domeček, 2012) and Michal Ajvaz (Druhé město, 2013).