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List Of Egyptian-American Writers
This is a list of Egyptian American writers. * Nonie Darwish, author and writer * Victor Hassine, prison writer * Lucette Lagnado, author and journalist See also *List of Egyptian writers This is a list of Egyptian Writers. A Hussein Abdelfatah * Abaza family * Fekry Pasha Abaza (1896–1979) * Abdel Rahman El Abnudi (1938–2015) * Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (1892–1955) * Yasser Abdel Hafez (1969– ) * Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (194 ... References {{unreferenced, date=September 2014 Egyptian American writers, List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptian American
Egyptian Americans are Americans of partial or full Egyptian ancestry. The 2016 US Census estimated the number of people with Egyptian ancestry at 256,000. Most of whom are from Egypt's Christian Coptic minority.Estimates for the number of Coptic Orthodox Christians in the US range from 700,000 to more than one million out of a total 800,000 to 2,000,000 Egyptians in AmericNY Timeshttp://www.arabmediawatch.com/amw/CountryBackgrounds/Egypt/Copts/tabid/346/Default.aspx] Egyptian Americans may also include the Egyptian foreign-born population in the United States. The US Census Bureau estimated in 2016 that there were 181,677 foreign-born Egyptians in the United States. They represented around 0.4% of the total US foreign-born population as 42,194,354 first-generation immigrants in 2016. Egyptians are concentrated in New York City and Los Angeles. California has the largest Egyptian population by state. History Egyptians began to migrate to the U.S. in significant numbers in the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nonie Darwish
Nonie Darwish ( ar, نوني درويش; born Nahid Darwish, 1949) is an Egyptian-American writer, founder of ''Arabs for Israel'' movement, and is Director of Former Muslims United. Darwish is an outspoken critic of Islam. The Southern Poverty Law Center has described her as an Anti-Arabism, anti-Arab and Islamophobia, anti-Muslim activist. Born in Egypt, Darwish is the daughter of an Egyptian Army lieutenant general, who was called a "shahid (martyr), shahid" by the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, after being killed in a targeted killing by the Israel Defense Forces in 1956. Darwish blames "the Middle Eastern Islamic culture and the propaganda of hatred taught to children from birth" for his death. In 1978, she moved with her husband to the United States, and converted to Christianity there. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, 11 September 2001 attacks, she has written on Islam-related topics. She is the author of four books: ''Now They Call Me Infidel, Now Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Hassine
Victor Hassine (1956–2008) was a prisoner for over 20 years in the Pennsylvania State Prison System. Born in Egypt and raised in Trenton, NJ, he is the author of '' Life without Parole: Living in Prison Today'' which documents some stories of prison life, interviews with other prisoners and some short essays about his personal views of the prison and criminal justice system in the United States. His book, which is currently in its fifth edition and has been renamed as Life without Parole: Living and Dying in Prison Today, is used by many sociology, criminal justice, and social work professors to help teach American justice and social control. Hassine, an intellectual who graduated from Dickinson College and New York Law School, offers a rare and intelligent insider's look at life in an American prison, including achievements and failures in the criminal justice system. Hassine's writings have been favorably reviewed by the New York Times and have garnered many awards, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucette Lagnado
Lucette Matalon Lagnado (September 19, 1956 – July 10, 2019) was an Egyptian-born American journalist and memoirist. She was a reporter for ''The Wall Street Journal''. Biography Lagnado was born to a Jewish family in Cairo, Egypt. She attended P.S. 205 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, and was a graduate of Vassar College. Lagnado wrote a prize-winning memoir about her childhood, ''The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World''. The book, published by Ecco, was awarded the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. The prize, which is administered by the New York-based Jewish Book Council, comes with a $100,000 stipend and is the richest cash award in the Jewish literary world. The presentation of the Rohr Prize took place in Jerusalem in April 2008. "The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit" was optioned by producer Anthony Bregman ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"), according to a December, 2008 announcement in Publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Egyptian Writers
This is a list of Egyptian Writers. A Hussein Abdelfatah * Abaza family * Fekry Pasha Abaza (1896–1979) * 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, archaeologist * Siham Bayoumi C * Constantine Cavafy * And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
