Abdel Hakim Qasem ( ar, عبد الحكيم قاسم alternate transliteration: Abd al-Hakim Qasim) (1934–1990) is considered one of the most significant authors in

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during the past thirty years. Judith Caesar of the American University of Sharjah wrote that Qasem was "relatively little-known".Caesar, Judith ( American University of Sharjah). "Book Reviews." '' Edebiyât'', 2003, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 251–268 (content related to this book: 253-255). ISSN 0364-6505 print; ISSN 1477-2841 online/02/020251-18.

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, DOI: 10.1080/0364650032000143283. Cited page: 253.

Biography

He was born in Al Bandara village, near Tanta. During the 1950s he moved to Cairo, and began writing until the 1960s when he was imprisoned for four years, for his political associations, by the

Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, . (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced Egyptian ...

government. He lived in exile in Berlin from 1974 until 1985. He then came back to Cairo, where he died in 1990. He wrote five novels, four novellas, five short story collections, and one play.

Partial bibliography

Novels

*''Ayyam Al-Insan Al-Sab'a'' (The Seven Days of Man) *''Qadar Al-Ghoraf Al-Muqbida'' (The Destiny of Stifling Rooms), 1982 *'' Rites of Assent: Two Novellas'', translated by

Peter Theroux Peter Christopher Sebastian Theroux (born 1956) is an American translator and writer. The younger brother of writers Alexander Theroux and Paul Theroux, during college Peter studied for a year at the University of Cairo. He became interested in Ar ...

, introduction by

Samia Mehrez Samia Mehrez (Arabic: سامية محرز) is an Egyptian professor of contemporary literature, literary critic, and researcher, who was born on 1 January 1955. She is President of the Center for Translation Studies at the American University in ...

. Temple University Press, 1995.

Biography

Partial bibliography

Novels

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