members: Abd al-Ghani al-Uraysi, Jamil Mardam Bey, and Awni Abd al-Hadi, Palestinian Rafiq al-Tamimi, the Iraqi Tawfiq al-Suwaidi, Ahmad Rustum Haydat, and Ahmad Qadri, among others
BBC journalists Simon Cumbers and Frank Gardner were attacked in Al-Suwaidi; Gardner was with a cameraman to film al-Rayyes's house.
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Al-Suwaidi (السويدي) is a district in southwestern Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia on the western side of the Wadi Hanifa.
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According to John R. Bradley, author of Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis, parts of Al-Suwaidi become "no go" to the police in the night time.
Beginning in November 1980, he first wrote to the Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), Ahmed Khalifa Al-Suwaidi.
Some of their translations include books by notable authors such as Naguib Mahfouz, Ghassan Kanafani, Maryse Condé, Derek Walcott and Tawfiq al-Hakim.
His play formed the basis of a popular Egyptian film by the same name, starring Ahmed Mazhar.