Waleed Abdulla Hashim

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Waleed Abdulla Hashim

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Waleed Abdulla Hashim is a Bahraini novelist. He was born in the Kingdom of Bahrain in 1982. He began writing at an early age and his first novel, I was not there, was published by Dar al-Konooz in 1999, whilst he was still at secondary school. He completed his higher education in the UK and holds an LLB in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He currently works in Bahrain as a novelist, lawyer and legal advisor. His other novels are: Across Another Life (2006, Arabic Institute of Research and Publishing) and Glanced Visions from Yarmuq (2009, Al-Intishar Institute).