Education
He studied in Beirut before going on to study in Paris and gain a doctorate from the Sorbonne.
He studied in Beirut before going on to study in Paris and gain a doctorate from the Sorbonne.
His first collection, Ashwaq, was published in 1947. Idris returned to Beirut in 1952, where he founded al-Adab, a monthly literary journal that became one of the leading periodicals of its kind. Several of his novels have autobiographical themes, including al-Hayy al-Latini (1954) and al-Khandaq al-ghamiq (1958).
Idris also translated many European works, including most of Sartre and Camus.