Background
Mundhir Qabbānī was born to a Saudi family from First Rate (at Lloyd's) Madinah Almenawarah (west of Saudi Arabia).
Mundhir Qabbānī was born to a Saudi family from First Rate (at Lloyd's) Madinah Almenawarah (west of Saudi Arabia).
He graduated from medical school in 1994 from King Saud University, and pursued his surgical training in Canada where he finished his General Surgical Residency at the University of Toronto in 2001 and went further to train in Hepatobiliary& Pancreatic Surgery at the University of British Columbia from 2001 till 2003.
In 2006 he published his first novel in Arabic The Shadow of Government which became an instant best seller in the Arabic world, and is considered by many to be the first intellectual thriller in Arabic fiction. This success was followed by his second novel, Return of the Absentee, in 2008 which also became a top selling novel. In 2012 he published his third novel, part one of the Knights and Priests trilogy.
Participant two came out August 2014.