Samuel Shimon was born into an Assyrian family in Al-Habbaniyah, Iraq, in 1956. He left his country in 1979, with the dream of becoming a Hollywood director, and has since lived in Damascus, Amman, Beirut, Nicosia, Aden, Cairo, Tunis and Paris, finally residing in London. He is the co-founder and assistant editor of Banipal magazine, and creator of kikah.com, an online journal of Arab culture.
His first novel An Iraqi in Paris was published in 2005.
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