Taleb Omran, also written Talib Omrans, is a Syrian writer, born January 1, 1948 in Tartous. He holds two PhDs in differential engineering and astronomy from Aligarh University in India and in civil engineering from Damascus University. He is a member of the Union of Writers and Journalists and the Syrian Society for the History of Science. He worked as a university professor at universities inside and outside Syria, the foundations of the Syrian educational space and the science fiction magazine Head of the Arab Science Fiction Writers Association and owner of the longest program broadcast on Radio Damascus, he has published about 75 books. He is one of the first Arab writers in the field of science fiction, as he wrote more than 70 novels such as "Planet of Dreams"(1978), "There Are No Poor People on the Moon" (1983), "Exiting Hell"(1994), "Cavemen" (1998), and "Pioneers of the Red Planet"" (1998) ,Dark Times (2003),“In Search of the Lost City” (2021).
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