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Bashar Hafez al-Assad (Arabic: Ø¨Ø´Ø§Ø± Ø­Ø§ÙØ¸ Ø§ÙØ£Ø³Ø¯ââ BaÅ¡Å¡Är á¸¤Äfiáº al-Ê¾Asad, Levantine pronunciation: [baÊËÊaËr ËÄ§aËfezË¤ elËÊasad]; English pronunciation (helpÂ·info); born 11 September 1965) is the current President of Syria, in office since 17 July 2000.
The term  haibun  was first used by the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo BashÅ, in a letter to his disciple Kyorai in 1690.BashÅ was a prominent early writer of haibun, then a new genre combining classical prototypes, Chinese prose genres and vernacular subject matter and language.he first contest for English-language haibun took place in 1996, organized by poet and editor Michael Dylan Welch, and judged by Tom Lynch and Cor van den Heuvel. Anita Virgil won first prize, and David Cobb won second prize. The contest resulted in the publication of Wedge of Light (Press Here) in 1999.