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{{Short description|Saudi Arabian journalist}}
'''Siba'i Ahmad Uthman''' ({{Langx|ar|أحمد السباعي}}; born 1938) is a [[Saudi people|Saudi]] journalist, author and short story writer.<ref>Biographical details in p.550, ''The Literature of Modern Arabia'' (ed. S.K. Jayyusi), Kegan Paul International, 1988</ref> He was born in 1938 in the [[Sudan]] and studied at the College of Arts in [[Khartoum]] before commencing a career in journalism. Among Uthman's works are several volumes of short stories including ''Silence and the Walls'' and ''Circles in the Book of Time''. His short story ''Silence and the Walls'' appeared in English translation in a 1988 anthology of Arabian literature edited by [[Salma Khadra Jayyusi]].
==Literary career==
He was a publisher for [[Al Nadwa (newspaper)|''Al Nadwa (newspaper)'']] newspaper and founded Quraish Press.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|access-date=2019-05-21 |archive-date=28 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328115744/http://www.alriyadh.com/1652082 |language=ar |title=أحمد السباعي.. شيخ المؤرخين |url=http://www.alriyadh.com/1652082 |website=جريدة الرياض}}<!-- auto-translated from Arabic by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref name="ibrahim-awad9.maktoobblog.com">{{cite web|access-date=26 September 2010 |archive-date=23 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323194526/http://ibrahim-awad9.maktoobblog.com/539858/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%89-%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7/ |title=مدونة الإسلام الواعي:الأديب السعودى أحمد السباعى (الطفولة الخالدة وحديث الذكريات) د. إبراهيم عوض |url=http://ibrahim-awad9.maktoobblog.com/539858/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%89-%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7/ |url-status=dead}}<!-- auto-translated from Arabic by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> Uthman founded the first theatre in [[Mecca]], the Dar Quraish for Islamic Narrative Drama.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|access-date=2019-05-21 |archive-date=22 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122193738/http://al-marsd.com/4811.html |date=2016-01-21 |language=ar |title=الحارثي : المسرح السعودي دون امرأة .. ناقص • صحيفة المرصد |url=https://al-marsd.com/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%ab%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%ad-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%b9%d9%88%d8%af%d9%8a-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a3%d8%a9-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%82/ |website=صحيفة المرصد}}<!-- auto-translated from Arabic by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
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