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 Achmed Khammas in 2012 | |
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Achmed Adolf Wolfgang Khammas (born March 23, 1952) is a German author, translator and interpreter. He is most popular for being one of the very few authors to write about Islam and science fiction in the Arabic language. [1] Khammas is also active in the field of sustainable energy. [1]
Khammas was born in Berlin in 1952 to a German mother and Iraqi father. [1] He grew up in Damascus, Syria. After attending school there he returned to Berlin to work at the Berlin Institute of Technology. [2] Shortly later he moved back to Damascus where he built up a factory for the production of solar thermal plants, between the years of 1977 and 1989. Since, he is back in Berlin and working as a translator and interpreter.
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