Faysal Khartash was born in 1952 in one of the old districts of Aleppo. His father was a revolutionary during the French colonialism. In 1983, Khartash graduated from the Department of Eastern Languages at Aleppo State University. He is a member of the Union of Arab Writers and Journalists.

In 1973, he started writing short stories that were first published in Syrian newspapers in 1975. Afterwards, he published collections of short stories and received several awards. Most of his short stories have been turned into films that have received different kinds of awards.

Some of Faysal Khartash’s books are devoted to the tragedy of the Armenians. In his books “Leaves of a Jasmine and the Night” ( والياسمين الليل أوراق ) (1994) and “Khan El Zeytun” (الزيتون خان) (1995), Khartash presents the sufferings that the Armenian people underwent and the complications in the relations of the helpless Armenians.

Faysal Khartash is a correspondent for the cultural section of a newspaper of the Middle East published in London, as well as a correspondent for different Arab newspapers.

Talking about Aram Sepetjian’s book “The Victim” (الذبيحة) in the El Taura El Siria newspaper, Faysal Khartash also touches upon the horrible tragedy that the Armenians experienced during the Lebanese war. He presents the Lebanese as a painting, while the Armenians are presented as an inseparable particle of that painting. He goes on to write that if we try to “separate” Lebanon from Armenian arts and crafts, the economic and scientific achievements, we will see that there won’t be any colors in paintings since the Armenians have been living and creating in the country for more than half a century.

Presenting Lebanese-Armenians, he says the Armenians are a nation that was forcefully displaced and now lives with worries and bitter memories, becoming writers and intellectuals. He adds that Armenians must definitely combine the past and present, their nationality and citizenship of Lebanon, the new reality and the psychology that are already the witnesses of time.