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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] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Cairo
Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university. Its main campus is in Giza, immediately across the Nile from Cairo. It was founded on 21 December 1908;"Brief history and development of Cairo University." Cairo University Faculty of Engineering. http://www.eng.cu.edu.eg/CUFE/History/CairoUniversityShortNote/tabid/81/language/en-US/Default.aspx however, after being housed in various parts of Cairo, its faculties, beginning with the Faculty of Arts, were established on its current main campus in Giza in October 1929. It is the second oldest institution of higher education in Egypt after Al Azhar University, notwithstanding the pre-existing higher professional schools that later became constituent colleges of the university. It was founded and funded as the Egyptian University by a commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sawiris Foundation Award
The Sawiris Cultural Award is an Egyptian literary prize, awarded annually by the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development. It was inaugurated in 2005 with prizes in two categories: novels and short stories. Since then, additional categories in screenplays and playwriting have been added. Each award is also divided into two sub-categories: senior writers and junior writers. Winners 2022 Novel * Abel Assad Merry, ''The Fabric threads of the Self'' * Mohamed Abu-Zeid, ''A Spider in the Heart'' Short Stories * Ossama Habachi, ''Try not to see me'' * Mohamed Abdel-Naby, ''Once Upon A Time'' 2011 (7th round) Novel * Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid, ''In Every Week There Is a Friday'', Senior Writers * Mohammed Rabie, ''Amber Planet'', Young Writers / First Place * Mohamed Salah al-Azab, ''Sidi Barani'', Young Writers / Second Place Short stories * Ahmed El-Khamissi, ''Canary'', Senior Writers * Tareq Imam, ''The Story of a Man: Whenever He Dreams of a City, He Dies In It'', Young Writers ... [...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] |
Sawiris Cultural Award
The Sawiris Cultural Award is an Egyptian literary prize, awarded annually by the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development. It was inaugurated in 2005 with prizes in two categories: novels and short stories. Since then, additional categories in screenplays and playwriting have been added. Each award is also divided into two sub-categories: senior writers and junior writers. Winners 2022 Novel * Abel Assad Merry, ''The Fabric threads of the Self'' * Mohamed Abu-Zeid, ''A Spider in the Heart'' Short Stories * Ossama Habachi, ''Try not to see me'' * Mohamed Abdel-Naby, ''Once Upon A Time'' 2011 (7th round) Novel * Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid, ''In Every Week There Is a Friday'', Senior Writers * Mohammed Rabie, ''Amber Planet'', Young Writers / First Place * Mohamed Salah al-Azab, ''Sidi Barani'', Young Writers / Second Place Short stories * Ahmed El-Khamissi, ''Canary'', Senior Writers * Tareq Imam, ''The Story of a Man: Whenever He Dreams of a City, He Dies In It'', Young Write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salah Jahin
Muhammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Ahmad Helmy (, ), known as "Salah Jaheen" or "Salah Jahin" ( ar, صلاح جاهين, ; December 25, 1930 – April 21, 1986) was a leading Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist. Life and career Jaheen was born in Shobra district, Cairo in 1930 to a middle-class family. He studied law in Cairo University. In 1955, he started working for the Egyptian weekly magazine "Rose al-Yousef" as a cartoonist. A year later, he moved to the new magazine "Sabah el-Khair" for which he became the editor-in-chief, then he joined Al-Ahram. Together with Fuad Haddad, Jaheen had a great role in development of Egyptian colloquial poetry. In fact, the term "shi'r al-ammiya" or "Arabic colloquial poetry" was only coined in 1961 by a group of young poets including Salah Jahin, Abd Al-Rahman Abnudi, Fuad Qaud and Sayyid Higab who called themselves "Jama't Ibn Arus". Before that, poetry in colloquial Egyptian Arabic was regarded as a folkloric and low ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo University
Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university. Its main campus is in Giza, immediately across the Nile from Cairo. It was founded on 21 December 1908;"Brief history and development of Cairo University." Cairo University Faculty of Engineering. http://www.eng.cu.edu.eg/CUFE/History/CairoUniversityShortNote/tabid/81/language/en-US/Default.aspx however, after being housed in various parts of Cairo, its faculties, beginning with the Faculty of Arts, were established on its current main campus in Giza in October 1929. It is the second oldest institution of higher education in Egypt after Al Azhar University, notwithstanding the pre-existing higher professional schools that later became constituent colleges of the university. It was founded and funded as the Egyptian University by a comm ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
