Biographies: Sonallah Ibrahim - Writer

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Sonallah Ibrahim is an Egyptian novelist known for his leftist and nationalist views and is among the controversial writers, especially after his refusal to receive the Arabic Novel Prize in 2003, which is granted by the Supreme Council of Culture. He was imprisoned for more than five years, from 1959 to 1964, due to Gamal Abdel Nasser's launched campaign against the left. Sonallah Ibrahim's literary works are distinguished by their close relationship with his biography on one hand, and with Egypt's political history on the other. One of Sonallah Ibrahim's most famous novels is The Committee, which was published in 1981. He also depicted the Lebanese civil war in his novel Beirut Beirut published in 1984. His novel Honor was chosen as the third best Arabic novel according to the classification of the Arab Writers Union

• 18 August 2021
• Toqa Hesham