| farah ashraf |
A prominent Egyptian novelist and politician. He worked as an Egyptian and international diplomat at the United Nations. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Montreal, and has several novels, two of which were nominated for the Arab Booker Prize. He was born on the twenty-second of October 1966 to Egyptian parents working in Kuwait. At the age of two, he returned to Egypt with his mother and siblings while his father remained in Kuwait to support his family. He grew up in the city of Mansoura and studied in its schools, and graduated from Mansoura Secondary School in 1983 and was among the top ten students in the country. After which he joined the Faculty of Political Science at Cairo University and graduated from it in 1987. He joined the Al-Ahram Center for Political Studies, after that he completed his military service. In 1992, he obtained an international diploma in management from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris and then a master's degree in international relations in 1995 from the University of Ottawa. He has published six novels. From his adapted novels is Abu Omar Al-Masry series in 2018.
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