Aboud Saeed

Aboud Saeed was born in 1983 and grew up in a small town close to Aleppo. He worked as a welder and a blacksmith and gained popularity with his Facebook status updates on the war in Syria. His book The Smartest Guy in Facebook. Status Updates from Syria (Microtext, 2013) was published in Germany and translated into English and Spanish. He is currently working on his first novel.