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Mekkawi Said
Mekkawi Said ( ar, مكاوي سعيد; 6 July 1956 – 2 December 2017) was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer. Early life He studied at Cairo University. He worked as a scriptwriter and publisher, operating the Al-Dar publishing house in Cairo. Career Said published his first book, a collection of short stories, in 1981. Since then, he has published several more short story collections and two novels. His second novel ''Cairo Swan Song'' was a bestseller and was nominated for the inaugural Arabic Booker Prize in 2008. The novel has also been translated into English by Adam Talib and published by the AUC Press. Awards and honors Said was a recipient of the Egyptian State Prize for Literature. References 1956 births 2017 deaths Writers from Cairo Egyptian novelists Egyptian male short story writers Egyptian short story writers {{Egypt-writer-stub ... [...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] |
