Achmed Adolf Wolfgang Khammas (born March 23, 1952) is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 author, translator and interpreter. He is most popular for being one of the very few authors to write about Islam

Islam

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 and science fiction

Science fiction

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 in the Arabic language

Arabic language

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. Khammas is also active in the field of sustainable energy.

Early life

Khammas was born in Berlin

Berlin

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 in 1952 to a German mother and Iraqi

Iraqi people

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 father. He grew up in Damascus

Damascus

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, Syria

Syria

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. After attending school there he returned to Berlin to work at the Berlin Institute of Technology. Shortly later he moved back to Damascus where he build 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.

External links

• Official website
• Wikipedia page in German
• . de 'Book of synergy' of Achmed Khammas