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Abdel Nasser El-Gohary
Abdel Nasser El-Gohary ( Arabic: عبد الناصر الجوهري), an Egyptian poet, born in 1970. He published more than 8 collections of poetry and two plays, and won several awards including The Classical Poetry Award from the Egyptian Writers Union in 2016. Education and career Abdel Nasser Ahmed El-Gohary Mohamed was born in the Governorate of Dakahlia, Egypt on 28 July 1970. He studied at Mansoura University and obtained a bachelor's degree in law in 2017. He is a member of the General Syndicate of the Egyptian Writers Union, the Association of Writers, and the International Islamic Literature Association, and he is also a lecturer in the General Organization of Culture Palaces. He was included in the literary dictionary by The General Organization of Culture Palaces in 2004, and was among the poets who were included in the guide of the Egyptian Writers Union in 2006. Also, El-Gohary's name was included in the Great Encyclopedia of Arab Poets in Morocco in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt, while Alexandria, the second-largest city, is an important industrial and tourist hub at the Mediterranean coast. At approximately 100 million inhabitants, Egypt is the 14th-most populated country in the world. Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the Nile Delta back to the 6th–4th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilisation, Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Mansoura
Mansoura University was founded in 1972 in Mansoura city, Egypt. It is in the middle of the Nile Delta. It is one of the biggest Egyptian universities and has contributed much to the cultural and scientific life in Mansoura and Egypt. History The faculty of medicine was founded in 1962 as a branch of Cairo University. In 1972, a presidential decree announced the establishment of the university under the name "East Delta University". Its name was changed to Mansoura University in 1973. In 2018, the '' Mansourasaurus'', a genus of herbivorous lithostrotian sauropod dinosaur, had been discovered by a team under Mansoura University paleontologist Hesham Sallam and was named after the university. Ranking According to Times Higher Education (THE) (''Edition: 2020''), the ranking of Mansoura University is: * World Ranking: 401–500 * Egyptian Ranking: 2 Faculties and institutes *The Faculty of Computers and Information Sciences *The Faculty of Engineering *The Faculty of Scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arabs, Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as First language, mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dakahlia Governorate
Dakahlia Governorate ( ar, محافظة الدقهلية ', ) is an Egyptian governorate lying northeast of Cairo. Its area is approximately 3,500 km2. Although the capital of the governorate is Mansoura, it got its name from the ancient town of Daqahlah (, from ) which is located in the modern Damietta Governorate. History Archaeology According to the Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities, in February, 2020, Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered 83 tombs dating back to 4,000 B.C known as Naqada III period. Various small pottery pots in different shapes and some sea shells, makeup tools, eyeliner pots, and jewels were also revealed in the burial. In April 2021, Egyptian archeologists announced the discovery of 110 burial tombs at the Koum el-Khulgan archeological site. 68 oval-shaped tombs of them dated back to the Predynastic Period and 37 rectangular-shaped tombs were from Second Intermediate Period. Rest of them dated back to the Naqada III period. The tombs also contai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansoura University
Mansoura University was founded in 1972 in Mansoura city, Egypt. It is in the middle of the Nile Delta. It is one of the biggest Egyptian universities and has contributed much to the cultural and scientific life in Mansoura and Egypt. History The faculty of medicine was founded in 1962 as a branch of Cairo University. In 1972, a presidential decree announced the establishment of the university under the name "East Delta University". Its name was changed to Mansoura University in 1973. In 2018, the '' Mansourasaurus'', a genus of herbivorous lithostrotian sauropod dinosaur, had been discovered by a team under Mansoura University paleontologist Hesham Sallam and was named after the university. Ranking According to Times Higher Education (THE) (''Edition: 2020''), the ranking of Mansoura University is: * World Ranking: 401–500 * Egyptian Ranking: 2 Faculties and institutes *The Faculty of Computers and Information Sciences *The Faculty of Engineering *The Faculty of Scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south. Mauritania lies to the south of Western Sahara. Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, and several small Spanish-controlled islands off its coast. It spans an area of or , with a population of roughly 37 million. Its official and predominant religion is Islam, and the official languages are Arabic and Berber; the Moroccan dialect of Arabic and French are also widely spoken. Moroccan identity and culture is a mix of Arab, Berber, and European cultures. Its capital is Rabat, while its largest city is Casablanca. In a region inhabited since the Paleolithic Era over 300,000 years ago, the first Moroccan s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amr El Adly
Amr El Adly ( Arabic: عمرو العادلي) is an Egyptian writer and novelist who was born in 1970. He is a member of Egypt writers Union. El Adly has published five-story collections, one poetry collection, and eight novels including ‘The Lamp and the Bottle’ and ‘My Name Is Fatima’ which were nominated for Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Biography Amr El Adly was born in Cairo on December 9, 1970. He graduated from the Department of Sociology at Ain Shams University. He is a member of the Egypt writers Union. His writing career started in 2008, when he published his first story collection "Black Bread." El Adly was influenced by ‘Art of Poetry’ by Aristotle and by ‘ The Decameron’ by Giovanni Boccaccio. In 2011, he succeeded to publish his first novel which is ‘Seducing Yusuf.’ However, "the Light and the Bottle" the novel which was longlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2018, is the only novel he published for childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hossam Fahr
Hossam Fahr ( Arabic: حسام فخر), a writer and translator, was born in 1958. He has published four collections of short stories and two novels including "The Other Stories". He won the Sawiris Foundation Award in its fourth session for his collection of short stories "Amina's Tales" in 2009. Education and career Hossam Fahr was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1958. He moved to New York City in 1982 and is currently residing there. His father is Major General Ahmed Fahr and his uncle is the Egyptian poet Salah Jahin. He is currently the Director of the translation Department at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. He graduated from Cairo University and earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science in 1979. His first short stories collections "The Rug is not Ahmadiyya" was published in 1985, and his second collection "The Mother of Feelings" was published in 1992. He has published four collections of short stories and two novels. His fourth short stories collection won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdi El-Gabri
Magdi El-Gabri (), Egyptian poet and researcher. He has published several collections of poetry, including "August" which was published in 1990 by Dar Al-Masrya. He died in 1999 of lung cancer. Biography Magdi Abdel-Hadi Al-Gabri was born in Umm Al-Masryeen neighborhood in Giza, Egypt in 1961. His mother gave birth to 16 children and he was the ninth child and one of two boys who lived after the death of his six siblings. For this reason, and to protect him from the evil eye, his family treated him as a girl which they dressed him as a girl, lengthened his hair, and changed his name to a girl's name until he started his primary school studies. El-Gabri studied his middle school at Al-Ahram School, and his secondary school at Saidia Military school in 1979. Later, he obtained a Diploma in Higher Institute for Agricultural Cooperation from Ain Shams University, and obtained a postgraduate diploma in folk arts from the Academy of Arts in 1992. Then, he worked as a proofreader fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptian Poets
Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of recorded history ** Egyptian cuisine, the local culinary traditions of Egypt * Egypt, the modern country in northeastern Africa ** Egyptian Arabic, the language spoken in contemporary Egypt ** A citizen of Egypt; see Demographics of Egypt * Ancient Egypt, a civilization from c. 3200 BC to 343 BC ** Ancient Egyptians, ethnic people of ancient Egypt ** Ancient Egyptian architecture, the architectural structure style ** Ancient Egyptian cuisine, the cuisine of ancient Egypt ** Egyptian language, the oldest known language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family * Copts, the ethnic Egyptian Christian minority ** Coptic language or Coptic Egyptian, the latest stage of the Egyptian language, spoken in Egypt until the 17th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Births
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