Khaled Al Khamissi
Khaled Al Khamissi was born to Egyptian actress Faten El Choubachi and poet Abdel Rahman Al Khamissi Lenin Peace Prize (1979) is an Egyptian novelist, columnist, lecturer, writer and cultural activist.
Upon his mother's death when he was five, Al Khamissi was raised by his maternal grandfather Moufid El Choubachi, also a poet, writer and critic. He grew up in a book-lined home, where politics, literature and art were constantly discussed.
Al Khamissi obtained a degree in Political Science from Cairo University in 1984 and a Master's degree in International Politics from the Sorbonne in 1987. His two fiction works, Taxi and Noah’s Ark, have provided Arabic and non-Arabic readers with insight into Egyptian society in the last decade. His first
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