https://www.al-adel.co.uk/home daily 1.0 2026-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2cc109ebb04f51a02974cb/61338534-5fa7-4ffb-8492-20996efeba16/Damaskopolis.png https://www.al-adel.co.uk/about daily 0.75 2026-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2cc109ebb04f51a02974cb/1579997180244-MDTX5C4T73P3HADD7OAI/profile.jpg About - Think Naguib Mahfouz or Taha Hussein — then lower your expectations. Wassim Al-Adel is a British-Syrian author living in Reading, England. Raised in Damascus, he writes dystopian science fiction that explores politics, identity, technology, and power. His debut novel, Damaskopolis, follows a detective searching for a missing woman in a futuristic Damascus. What begins as a simple investigation soon grows into a struggle for the fate of a city - and perhaps his own soul. Inspired by writers such as Peter F. Hamilton, Philip K. Dick, Richard K. Morgan, and Stephen King, Wassim enjoys creating stories that combine mystery, suspense, and speculative world-building with questions about society and human nature. When he's not writing, he's usually watching films, playing video games, listening to music, or spending time with his wife and two children in Reading - known to him, and almost nobody else, as the Riviera of Berkshire. https://www.al-adel.co.uk/contact daily 0.75 2026-06-03