Suleiman Al Maamari
Suleiman Al Maamari is an Omani writer and journalist. He is famous for his novel Who Does Not Like Jamal Abdelnasser, his three short stories collection Maybe Because He is a Defeated Man, Things are Closer Than They Seem in The Mirror which won the Yusuf Idris Short Stories Competition, and Shut-Off Abdelfattah Doesn't Like Details. He was the head of The Omani Society for Writers and Literates between 2008 and 2010, and the head of Story Writers Family in Oman between 2007 and 2009. Currently, he is working as the head of the cultural programs department at the Sultanate of Oman Radio.
Biography
Suleiman Al Maamari is a founding member of The Omani Society for Writers and Literates and was the head between 2008 and 2010, and the head of Story Writers Family in Oman between 2007 and 2009. He is head of the cultural programs department at the Sultanate of Oman Radio, some of his most prominent programs are "The Cultural Scene" and "A Book I Like" and "Little Reader". In 2013, Al Maamari wrote his first novel "Who Does Not Like Jamal Abdelnasser". He also participated in many cultural and literary forums in the Arab region.Al-Maamari contributed in exposing plagiarism and literary theft in the fields of journalism and literature. In 2017, blogging declined, which prompted Al-Maamari to dedicate his Facebook page to uncovering literary plagiarism and discussing plagiarism. He faced some judicial troubles and accusations of defamation and abuse as a result of his leadership of this campaign. Al-Maamari used these accusations as a way to uncover the truth so that the authorities could take the necessary measures against plagiarists and enhance the security of intellectual and literary property. Thanks to Al-Maamari's efforts on Facebook, social media users have increased awareness of the phenomenon of plagiarism, and in turn aroused the interest of newspapers and television stations and prompted them to conduct journalistic investigations and produce television programs on plagiarism.