Nihad Sirees (Arabic: نهاد سيريس; born 1950, Aleppo, Syria) is a Syrian writer of contemporary fiction and screenwriter. He was born in the northern Syrian metropolis Aleppo and studied engineering in Bulgaria. Sirees emerged as a fiction writer in the 1980s, and has written novels, plays, and scripts for TV dramas. Among his notable works are the historical novel The North Winds and the TV series The Silk Market, which has been translated for screening into English, Persian and German. He also ...