What’s Special About Judy, The Picture Book - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Tarif was born in Damascus, Syria in 1957. He started writing short stories and articles in his early years of elementary school and free style poetry in his college years. He earned 2 BS degrees in Engineering and Literature from Damascus University. He decided that Syria was not a safe country to live in, so he moved to the U.S. in the Eighties and restarted his life from scratch. He organized several poetry recitals in Houston in the years 2009 and 2010. As soon as the Arab Spring revolutions started late 2010, he instantly moved to their side where he published 3 books in poetry documenting them and one in short stories describing life under dictatorship. In 2018, he published his 5th book 'Hearts, Tears and the Journey of Life' that contains collective poems of Love, Lamenting and Meditation. In 2020, came his first children book "A Tale of Seven Phones" which was a whistle blow about the young generation addiction to smart phones. In this book, he is giving children the magic secret how to become SPECIAL.

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