https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog daily 0.75 2026-08-16 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/damaskopolis-list-of-characters monthly 0.5 2026-07-13 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/damaskopolis-timeline monthly 0.5 2026-06-24 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/q0yrb8w7xj17l646p9s2ixyrwhuyue monthly 0.5 2026-06-20 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/munzirs-last-stand monthly 0.5 2022-02-04 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/zxpl6o4hcrd10hm85eiqh96m7hwb5a monthly 0.5 2021-02-28 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/ajp24928ql083drjw5nwrwykfl7bey monthly 0.5 2021-02-09 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/go-big-or-go-home monthly 0.5 2021-02-06 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/on-this-day monthly 0.5 2021-01-16 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/the-dreaded-novel-re-write monthly 0.5 2020-11-26 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/post-writing-fundamentals monthly 0.5 2020-11-23 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/writing-fundamentals-first-class monthly 0.5 2020-07-20 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/the-post-apocalyptic-world-of-dominic-cummings monthly 0.5 2020-05-25 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/lessons-from-solitude monthly 0.5 2020-03-26 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/submissions-away monthly 0.5 2020-03-23 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/the-year-of-no-toilet-paper monthly 0.5 2020-03-23 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/blog/this-is-a-bad-idea monthly 0.5 2020-01-25 https://www.al-adel.co.uk/home daily 1.0 2026-07-16 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 2026-06-24 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, cosmopolitan Damascus. What begins as a simple investigation soon grows into a race against time as Yossi and the city’s fates intertwine. Inspired by writers such as Peter F. Hamilton, Brian Aldiss, John Wyndham 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 in his allotment with his wife and two children. Wassim lives in Reading - a place he likes to call, “the Riviera of Berkshire.” https://www.al-adel.co.uk/contact daily 0.75 2026-06-03