Please note that the content of this book mainly consists of articles that are available online from Wikipedia or other free sources. Achmed Adolf Wolfgang Khammas (March 23, 1952, in Berlin, Germany) is a German-Syrian-Iraqi translator, interpreter, and science fiction author (under the pseudonym Ghassan Homsi). He is considered one of the very few Arabic-speaking authors who write science fiction. Achmed Khammas, EM-Summer 2008. From 1977 to 1989, he primarily worked in his second home, Syria, where he established a manufacturing facility for thermal solar systems in Damascus. In the Syrian part of the Golan Heights, he experimented with pesticide-free agriculture and innovative irrigation systems. Together with engineers Tahsin al-Majed and Maan Kaadan, he developed and patented a highly efficient rotor blade for wind turbines.