Arkan Simaan (born 1945) is a Lebanese-French novelist.
Arkan Simaan (born 1945) is a Lebanese-French novelist.
Arkan was born in Lebanon in 1945. When he was two years old, his family immigrated to Brazil and settled in the city of Anápolis near Brasília. [1] The 1964 Brazilian coup d'état overthrew the government of João Goulart just as Simaan had begun studying physics at the University of São Paulo. In response to this, he became a student activist. [2] [3] [4] [5] Sought by the political police and sentenced to jail in absentia, he went underground. [6] [7] His name was then cited in several prosecutions. Forced to flee Brazil, he arrived in Paris in 1970.
After a few years in France, Simaan refrained from activities that were connected with his prior political involvement. In Paris he resumed his studies in physics at the University Paris Diderot. He then attended the Institut Supérieur des Matériaux et de la Construction Mécanique from which he received an engineering degree. Following a short spell in industry, he realized that he wanted to teach, [8] so he obtained the agrégation in physics.
In 2012 he was one of the founders of Planète Amazone, [9] [10] a French non-governmental organization defending indigenous peoples. [11] He took part in the travels in Europe of the chief Raoni. [12]
Arkan Simaan is member of the scientific patronage committee of Association Française pour l'Information Scientifique. [13]
All his books were originally written in French, and many of them have won awards.
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