Mustafa Khalifa, also spelled Moustafa Khalifa (Arabic: مصطفى خليفة; born 1948 in Jarabulus, Syria) is a Syrian novelist, political writer and former prisoner of conscience. He became first known for his autobiographical novel The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer that has been translated into several languages.
Early life
Khalifa spent his childhood in the northern Syrian metropolis Aleppo, where he began to participate in political activities as a teenager. Because of this, he was impriso...