Mundhir Qabbānī

Mundhir Qabbānī was born to a Saudi family from Al Madinah Almenawarah (west of Saudi Arabia). He graduated from medical school at King Saud University in 1994, and pursued his surgical training in Canada where he finished his General Surgical Residency at the University of Toronto in 2001. He went further to train in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery at the University of British Columbia from 2001 till 2003. In 2006 he published his first novel in Arabic The Shadow of Government which established him as one of the top selling novelists in the arab world, and started the genre of intellectual thriller in arabic literature. This was followed by his second novel, Return of the Absentee, in 2008. In 2012 he published his third novel, Outcast, part one of the Warriors and Warlocks trilogy. Part two, Qotoz, came out August 2014, and was followed by part three "Qareen" in 2016.

• review of "The Shadow of Government" (in Arabic) in Al Riyadh
• Interview with Intralingo in English
• review of "The Shadow of Government" (in Arabic) in Al Watan
• Interview with Al Watan newspaper (in Arabic)
• review of "Knights and Priests" ("Warriors and Warlocks Chapter One: Outcast") (in Arabic) on Al Jazeera