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Fathy Ghanem
Fathi Ghanem (Arabic: فتحي غانم) (2 March 1924 – 24 February 1999) was an Egyptian writer. Ghanem was born in Cairo to a working-class family. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Fuad I University, in 1944, then worked as a reporter for ', a newspaper published by the foundation of the same name. Later, he worked as an editor for '' Al Gomhuria'' and chairman of the board of directors at the Dar Al Tahrir Foundation, the newspaper's publisher. Works Books * ''The Man who Lost His Shadow'' (الرجل الذي فقد ظله, translated by Desmond Stewart) * ''The Elephants'' (الأفيال) * ''The Mountain'' (الجبل) Films * ''The Man who Lost His Shadow The Man who lost his Shadow (Egyptian Arabic: الرجل الذى فقد ظله translit: ''El Ragol Ellazi fakad Zelloh'') is a 1968 Egyptian film directed by Kamal El Sheikh. It is based on Fathy Ghanem’s story under the same name. It stars ...'' (الرجل الذي فقد ظله) * ''Minister in Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Cairo
Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of largest cities in the Arab world, the Arab world, and List of largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East, the Middle East. The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is List of largest cities, one of the largest in the world by population with over 22.1 million people. The area that would become Cairo was part of ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis, Egypt, Memphis and Heliopolis (ancient Egypt), Heliopolis are near-by. Located near the Nile Delta, the predecessor settlement was Fustat following the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 next to an existing ancient Roman empire, Roman fortress, Babylon Fortress, Babylon. Subsequently, Cairo was founded by the Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid dynasty in 969. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptians
Egyptians (, ; , ; ) are an ethnic group native to the Nile, Nile Valley in Egypt. Egyptian identity is closely tied to Geography of Egypt, geography. The population is concentrated in the Nile Valley, a small strip of cultivable land stretching from the Cataracts of the Nile, First Cataract to the Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean and enclosed by desert both to the Eastern Desert, east and to the Western Desert (North Africa), west. This unique geography has been the basis of the DNA history of Egypt, development of Egyptian society since Ancient Egypt, antiquity. The daily language of the Egyptians is a continuum of the local variety of Arabic, varieties of Arabic; the most famous dialect is known as Egyptian Arabic or ''Masri''. Additionally, a sizable minority of Egyptians living in Upper Egypt speak Sa'idi Arabic. Egyptians are predominantly adherents of Sunni Islam with a small Shia minority and a significant proportion who follow native Sufi tariqah, orders.Hoffman, Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuad I University
Cairo University () 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 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. The university was known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952. The university 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. The university was founded and funded as the Egyptian University by a committee of private citizens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Gomhuria
Al Gomhuria' (; ) is an influential state-owned Egyptian Arabic language daily newspaper. History and profile ''Al Gomhuria'' was established in 1954 following the Egyptian revolution and became the new regime's leading media outlet. The paper was published using the facilities of Wafd party's newspaper '' Al Misri'', which had been banned and forced to shut down by the regime. Anwar Sadat became the editor of the daily. The publisher of the paper is Dar Al Tahrir which was founded following the 1952 revolution. However, ''Al Gomhuria'' could not completely achieve the goals set by Gamal Abdel Nasser. The circulation of the daily in 2000 was 400,000 copies. Samir Ragab served as the chairman of the board and the editor in chief of the daily. In August 2012, Gamal Abdel Rahim was appointed editor-in-chief of the paper by the Egyptian Shura Council. However, he was fired in October 2012 and Al Sayed Al Bably was named as the editor-in-chief in November. Dar Al Tahrir publishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Lost His Shadow
The Man who lost his Shadow (Egyptian Arabic: الرجل الذى فقد ظله translit: ''El Ragol Ellazi fakad Zelloh'') is a 1968 Egyptian film directed by Kamal El Sheikh. It is based on Fathy Ghanem’s story under the same name. It stars Magda, Salah Zulfikar and Kamal El-Shennawi. The film is a member of the Top 100 Egyptian films list. Synopsis The events of the film occur before the 1952 Revolution, Shawky is a revolutionary who struggles to build a new world. His friend, Youssef, rose in the world of journalism on the shoulders of his teacher, Mohamed Nagy, as he is an opportunist who sold himself in order to achieve his individual ambition and abandoned all human values and traditions with the aim of linking to a higher class represented by the aristocratic Souad. He struggles to build a new world in which his middle class and even the whole country will obtain social justice. Youssef's father assaults his maid, Mabrouka, and after his death, Youssef expels her wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Egyptian Authors
This is a list of Egyptian writers. A * Abaza family * Fekry Pasha Abaza (1896–1979) * Aziz Pasha Abaza (1898–1973) * Tharwat Abaza (1927–2002) * Duaa Abdelrahman (1979–) * Abdel Rahman El Abnudi (1938–2015) * Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (1892–1955) * Yasser Abdel Hafez (1969– ) * Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (1946– ) * Ihsan Abdel Quddous (1919–1990) * Yahya Taher Abdullah (1938–1981) * Hamdy Abowgliel * Yusuf Abu Rayya (1955–2009) * Tatamkulu Afrika (1920–2002), also connected with South Africa * Leila Ahmed (1940– ) * Abbas Al Akkad (1889–1964) * Jamila al-'Alayili (1907–1991) * Edwar al-Kharrat (1926–2015) * Muhammad Aladdin, novelist, short story writer and script writer * Ahmed Alaidy (1974– ) * Idris Ali (1940–2010) * Karim Alrawi * Samir Amin (1931–2018) * Gaber Asfour (1944–2021) * Radwa Ashour (1946–2014) * Alaa Al Aswany (1957– ) *Abdel Rahim Ahmed B * Hala el Badry * Kerolos Bahgat * Salwa Bakr * Sherin Hana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 Births
Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in China holds its 1st National Congress of the Kuomintang, first National Congress, initiating a policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party. * January 21 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961 (Accessed on 14 April 2017) * January 22 – R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptian Writers
This is a list of Egyptian writers. A * Abaza family * Fekry Pasha Abaza (1896–1979) * Aziz Pasha Abaza (1898–1973) * Tharwat Abaza (1927–2002) * Duaa Abdelrahman (1979–) * Abdel Rahman El Abnudi (1938–2015) * Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (1892–1955) * Yasser Abdel Hafez (1969– ) * Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (1946– ) * Ihsan Abdel Quddous (1919–1990) * Yahya Taher Abdullah (1938–1981) * Hamdy Abowgliel * Yusuf Abu Rayya (1955–2009) * Tatamkulu Afrika (1920–2002), also connected with South Africa * Leila Ahmed (1940– ) * Abbas Al Akkad (1889–1964) * Jamila al-'Alayili (1907–1991) * Edwar al-Kharrat (1926–2015) * Muhammad Aladdin, novelist, short story writer and script writer * Ahmed Alaidy (1974– ) * Idris Ali (1940–2010) * Karim Alrawi * Samir Amin (1931–2018) * Gaber Asfour (1944–2021) * Radwa Ashour (1946–2014) * Alaa Al Aswany (1957– ) *Abdel Rahim Ahmed B * Hala el Badry * Kerolos Bahgat * Salwa Bakr *Sherin Hanaey * Hussein Bassir, archae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
