An Egyptian writer and storyteller. He was born in 1939 in Kafr Hegazy, El-Mahalla El-Kubra. He graduated from high school in 1965, and worked for a while in Credit Agricole Bank in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, then moved to Cairo in 1972 to devote himself to writing, but he traveled to...Read more Saudi Arabia to work as an accountant (1975-1979), and while he was there, he published a short novel in the Lebanese magazine Al-Hawadith. He wrote the story and screenplay for the feature filmMotaw'ie and Bahiya (1982). He is best known for writing the short story collections: The Beautiful City of Death in 1985, Kiosk Music, and Circles of Nostalgia in 1997. Some of his collections have been translated into English, French, German, Danish and Hebrew.
An Egyptian writer and storyteller. He was born in 1939 in Kafr Hegazy, El-Mahalla El-Kubra. He graduated from high school in 1965, and worked for a while in Credit Agricole Bank...Read more in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, then moved to Cairo in 1972 to devote himself to writing, but he traveled to Saudi Arabia to work as an accountant (1975-1979), and while he was there, he published a short novel in the Lebanese magazine Al-Hawadith. He wrote the story and screenplay for the feature filmMotaw'ie and Bahiya (1982). He is best known for writing the short story collections: The Beautiful City of Death in 1985, Kiosk Music, and Circles of Nostalgia in 1997. Some of his collections have been translated into English, French, German, Danish and Hebrew.