Mohamed Salmawy is a leading

Egyptian 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 ...

intellectual whose writings are widely read throughout the Arab World. He is the former president of the Writers Union of Egypt and the secretary general of the General Union of Arab Writers. A former editor-in-chief of a number of leading publications, including the widely circulated independent news-paper

Al-Masry Al-Youm ''Al-Masry Al-Youm'' ( ar, المصري اليوم ', , meaning ''The Egyptian Today'') is an Egyptian privately owned daily newspaper that was first published in June 2004. It is published in Arabic as is its website, ''almasryalyoum.com''. An ...

, he is one of Egypt’s most prominent columnists, play wrights and novelists.

Literary Works

Notable titles include ''Butterfly Wings'', translated by Raphael Cohen, and ''The Last Station: Naguib Mahfouz Looking Back'', translated by

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. His literary writings have been widely translated, and his novel “Butterfly Wings” (AUC Press, 2014) predicted, when it first appeared in Arabic in 2010, the 2011 Revolution that led to the ouster of President

Hosni Mubarak Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak, (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in t ...

Awards

He is the recipient of a number of prestigious decorations from France, Italy and Belgium; and his books have received a number of literary awards. Salmawy received the Prestigious Medal of Honor of

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from

Mahmoud Abbas Mahmoud Abbas ( ar, مَحْمُود عَبَّاس, Maḥmūd ʿAbbās; born 15 November 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen ( ar, أَبُو مَازِن, links=no, ), is the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian Natio ...

, the President of

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on 22 November 2017.

References

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