Radwa Ashour
Radwa Ashour (Arabic: رضوى عاشور) was an Egyptian writer and scholar.
Ashour had published 7 novels, an autobiographical work, 2 collections of short stories and 5 criticism books. Part I of her Granada Trilogy won the Cairo International Book Fair “1994 Book of the Year Award.” The Trilogy won the First Prize of the First Arab Woman Book Fair (Cairo, Nov. 1995). The Granada Trilogy was translated into Spanish; part I of the Trilogy was translated into English. Siraaj, An Arab Tale was published in English translation, and Atyaaf was published in Italian. Her short stories have been translated into English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.
Ashour has co-edited a major 4-volume work on Arab women writers (2004); The English translation:
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Anna Grigoryevna Dostoyevskaya
Anna Grigoryevna Dostoyevskaya (Russian: Анна Григорьевна Достоевская; 12 September 1846, Saint Petersburg – 9 June 1918, Yalta) was a Russian memoirist, stenographer, assistant, and the second wife of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (since 1867). She was also one of the first female philatelists in Russia. She wrote two biographical books about Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Anna Dostoyevskaya's Diary in 1867, which was published in 1923 after her death, and Memoirs of Anna Dostoyevskaya (also known as Reminiscence of Anna Dostoyevskaya), published in 1925.
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Anna Dostoyevskaya, (née Snitkina) was born to Maria Anna and Grigory Ivanovich Snitkin. Anna graduated academic high school summa cum laude and subsequently trained as a stenographer.
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Sahar Khalifeh
Sahar Khalifeh (Arabic: سحر خليفة ; also as Sahar Khalifa in French, German, Italian) is a Palestinian writer.
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She has written eleven novels, which have been translated into English, French, Hebrew, German, Spanish, and many other languages. One of her best-known works is the novel Wild Thorns (1976). She has won international prizes, including the 2006 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, for The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant.
Sahar Khalifeh is the founder of the Women's Affairs Center in Nablus. She received her B.A. degree in English & American Literature from Birzeit University (Palestine, 1977), an M.A. from the The University of North Carolina (USA, 1982) and a PhD in Women Studies & American Women’s Literature from the Uni -
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Mahmoud Darwish was a respected Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. In his work, Palestine became a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile.
The Lotus Prize (1969; from the Union of Afro-Asian Writers)
Lenin Peace Prize (1983; from the USSR)
The Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (1993; from France)
The Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom (2001)
Prince Claus Awards (2004)
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The International Forum for Arabic Poetry prize (2007)
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Youssef Ziedan
(Arabic: يوسف زيدان)
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Director of the Manuscript Center/Museum, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Professor of Philosophy and History of Science.
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- 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) In Association with the Booker Prize Foundation
- Imam Muhammad Madi Abul-‘Aza’im Award in the field of Islamic studies in 1995.
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Mearsheimer is best known for developing the theory of offensive realism, which describes the interaction between great powers as being primarily driven by the rational desire to achieve regional hegemony in an anarchic international system. In accordance with his theory, Mearsheimer believes that China's growing power will likely bring it into conflict with the United States.
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He lives in Cairo.
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Michael is a Senior Fellow at The Center for Humanistic Management and a member of the Leading People and Organizations Advisory Board at the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business. Michael was also awarded a Batten Fellowship in Innovation from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business, and he co-directed the acclaimed Leading Innovation Seminar there for more than 10 years. Michael was honored as “Brain of t -
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A film in French, "L'Annulaire“ (The Ringfinger), directed by Diane Bertrand, starring Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé, was released in France in June 2005 and subsequently made the rounds of the international film festivals; the film, some of which is filmed in the Hamburg docks, is based in part on Og -
Naguib Mahfouz
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كاتب وباحث في مجال علم النفس.حاصل على ماجيستير في علم النفس السلوكي، وعمل مع العديد من الأشخاص ليعلمهم كيفية الوصول لصفاء الذهن والهدوء العقلي. له أكثر من 30 كتاب في مجال علم النفس، من ضمنهم كتاب clam your thoughts -the art of self therapy
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Ibrahim Nasrallah
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Agha Ali Ibrahim Akram
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He entered the Department of Chinese at Beijing Normal University in 1980, and started to publish novels in 1983. He is now vice president of the Jiangsu Writers Association. Known for his controversial writing style, Su is one of the most acclaimed novelists in China.
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Mubarakpuri began his studies at home with the Quran under the tutelage of his grandfather and uncle. He then began studies in Arabic and Persian after being admitted to Madrasa Arabia Dar-ut-Taleem. He later moved on to Madrasah Ihyaaul Uloom in Mubarakpur after being admitted there in 1954. Two years after that he joined Madrasa Faiz-e-Aam Maunath Bhanjan (Mau district) for further studies. Upon completion of his seven years of studies, he acquired the Fadilat degree and passed multiple exams to receive the -
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
الطاهر بن جلون
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Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: الطاهر بن جلون) is a Moroccan writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Arabic. He became known for his 1985 novel L’Enfant de Sable (The Sand Child). Today he lives in Paris and continues to write. He has been short-listed for the Nobel Prize in Literature. -
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After two poetry volumes which were published under the titles of 'La lentitud de los bueyes' (1979) and 'Memoria de la nieve' (1982), his successful debut as a novel writer came out in 1985 'Luna de lobos'.
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James Joyce
A profound influence of literary innovations of Irish writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce on modern fiction includes his works, Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
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Sylvia Beach published the first edition of Ulysses of James Augustine Aloysius Joyce in 1922.
John Stanislaus Joyce, an impoverished gentleman and father of James Joyce, nine younger surviving siblings, and two other siblings who died of typhoid, failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of other professions, including politics and tax collecting. The Roman Catholic Church dominated life of Mary Jane Murray, an accomplished pianist and his mother. In spite of poverty, the family struggled to maintain a solid middle-class façade.
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Mustafa Khalifa
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Alphonse Karr
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Mohamed Samir Nada (محمد سمير ندا)
عن المؤلف
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محمد سمير ندا، مصريّ الجنسية، ولد في مدينة بغداد عام ١٩٧٨، وقضى سنوات الطفولة الأولى في بلاد الرافدين، لتتشكّل طفولته على إيقاعات الحرب العراقيّة الإيرانيّة. عادت أسرته لتستقرّ في مصر في القترة بين عاميّ ١٩٨٤ و١٩٩٠. عقب ذلك شدّ والديه الرحال مجدّدًا، غربًا هذه المرّة، ليقضي مرحلة صباه في طرابلس-ليبيا، حتّى عادت أسرته لتستقرّ في مصر مجدّدًا عام ١٩٩٦.
تخرّج في كليّة التجارة، وعمل محاسبًا في المجال السياحي، حتّى استقرّ به الحال في منصب ماليّ وإداريّ في إحدى الشركات العاملة في مجال السياحة والمطاعم. له أخّين هو الأوسط بينهما. متزوّج منذ عام ٢٠٠٨، ولديه ولدين.
والده هو سمير ندا (١٩٣٨-٢٠١٣)، الأديب المصري المتفرّد الذي لمع نجمه في ستينيّات القرن الماضي، وقدّم للأدب المصري قامات أدبية شابة آنذاك؛ مثل جمال الغيطاني ويوسف القعيد وغيرهما. كما -
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Ghassan Kanafani
Ghassan Kanafani (Arabic: غسان كنفاني)
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Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, By the Israeli Mossad
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Marina Stepnova
Marina Stepnova (Марина Степнова) now lives in Moscow but was raised in Kishinev. She graduated from The Gorky Literary Institute and did postgraduate studies at the Institute of World Literature. Stepnova’s translation from Romanian of the play “Nameless Star” by Mikhail Sebastien has been staged by numerous theaters throughout Russia. Her novel "The Surgeon" won the nomination for the National Bestseller Prize.
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Ghassan Kanafani
Ghassan Kanafani (Arabic: غسان كنفاني)
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Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, By the Israeli Mossad
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Abdelfattah Kilito
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Abdelfattah Kilito is a well known Moroccan writer. He was born in Rabat in 1945. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for magazines like Poétique and Studia Islamica. Some of the awards Kilito has won are the Great Moroccan Award (1989), the Atlas Award (1996), the French Academy Award (le prix du Rayonnement de la langue française) (1996) and Sultan Al Owais Prize for Criticism and Literature Studies (2006). -
Alain de Botton
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He is a writer of essayistic books, which refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'
His first book, Essays in Love [titled On Love in the US], minutely analysed the process of falling in and out of love. The style of the book was unusual, because it mixed elements of a novel together with reflections and analyses normally found in a piece of non-fiction. It's a book of which many readers are still fondest.
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Naji al-Ali ناجي العلي
(السيرة الذاتية باللغة العربية أدناه)
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Naji Salim al-Ali (1938–87) was a Palestinian cartoonist, noted for the political criticism in his work. He drew over 40,000 cartoons, which often reflected Palestinian and Arab public opinion and were sharply critical commentaries on Palestinian and Arab politics and political leaders. He is perhaps best known as creator of the character Handala, pictured in his cartoons as a young witness of the satirized policy or event depicted, and who has since become an icon of Palestinian defiance. Naji al-Ali was shot by unknown assailants outside the offices of “al-Qabas”, a Kuwaiti newspaper in London on July 22, 1987 and died 5 weeks later.
كان الصحفي والأديب الفلسطيني غسان كنفاني قد شاهد ثلاثة أعمال من رسوم ن -
Kōbō Abe
Kōbō Abe (安部 公房 Abe Kōbō), pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe, was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer, and inventor.
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He was the son of a doctor and studied medicine at Tokyo University. He never practised however, giving it up to join a literary group that aimed to apply surrealist techniques to Marxist ideology.
Abe has been often compared to Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia for his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society and his modernist sensibilities.
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Gustave Le Bon
A social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behavior and crowd psychology.
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Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi
ولد عبد الرحمن الكواكبي بن أحمد في عام 1854 ، وعندما بلغ السادسة من عمره توفيت والدته ، فأرسله أبوه إلى خالته بأنطاكية ، فحضنته وعلمته القراءة والكتابة واللغة التركية ، ثم عاد إلى حلب ليتابع دراسته في المدرسة الكواكبية ، وكان أبوه مديراً لها ومدرساً فيها ، فتعلم مبادئ الدين واللغة العربية . ثم تلقى العلوم العصرية الرياضية والطبيعية وأتقن اللغتين التركية والفارسية تكلماً وكتابة . وكانت صحف استانبول تصل إلى حلب وفيها خير المترجمات عن العلوم والآداب الغربية ، فراح يعب منها حتى استقام لسانه واتسع أفقه .
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عندما بلغ الثانية والعشرين من عمره عين محرراً غير رسمي لجريدة فرات ، وهي الجريدة الرسمية التي كانت تصدرها الحكومةباللغتين العربية والتركية ، وبعد عام أصبح محرراً رسمياً لهذه الجريدة براتب شهري قدره 800 قرش . عام 1878 أنشأ الكواكبي جريدة الشهباء و -
William Guy Carr
A Canadian naval officer and an author.
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Though his accounts of wartime naval experiences found a general audience, he is best remembered today as a conspiracy theorist, "the most influential source in creating the American Illuminati demonology", according to the American folklorist Bill Ellis.
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Bernadette Jiwa
Bernadette Jiwa is an Irish Australian writer and story skills teacher. For ten years, she successfully published award-winning non-fiction books before embracing the freedom of fiction.
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Charles Bronson
English criminal and former bare knuckle boxer.
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Bronson is often referred to in the British press as the "most violent prisoner in Britain".Bronson wasa petty criminal before being sentenced to seven years imprisonment in 1974.
While in prison, he began making a name for himself as a loose cannon, often fighting convicts and prison officers. He also embarked on one-man rooftop protests. He was released on 30 October 1988, but spent merely sixty-nine days as a free man before he was arrested again.
Upon his release, he began a bare-knuckle boxing career in the East End of London. His promoter was unhappy with his name and suggested he change it to Charles Bronson. He was returned to prison for planning another robbery and continued to be a di -
Andrée Chedid
Andrée Chedid was a French poet and novelist of Christian Lebanese descent.
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When she was ten, she was sent to a boarding school, where she learned English and French. At fourteen, she left for Europe. She then returned to Cairo to go to an American university. Her dream was to become a dancer. She got married to a physician when she was twenty-two, with whom she has two children: Louis Chedid, now a famous French singer, and Michèle. Her work questions human condition and what links the individual to the world. Her writing seeks to evoke the Orient, but she focuses more in denouncing the civil war that destroys Lebanon. She has lived in France since 1946. Because of this diverse background, her work is truly multicultural. Her first book was -
Joseph A. Massad
Joseph Andoni Massad is Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His academic work has focused on Palestinian, Jordanian, and Israeli nationalism.
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José Mauro de Vasconcelos
José Mauro was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 26 of 1920. His family was very poor, and when he was still very young, he migrated to Natal where relatives took care of him. Entering the Medical Faculty, José abandoned the course of studies in his second year and returned to Rio de Janeiro.[citation needed] There he worked as a boxing instructor and even as a painter's model.
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José iniciated his literature with the novel Banana Brava. His greatest success was his novel Meu Pé de Laranja Lima, that tells about his own personal experiences and the shocks he suffered in his childhood with the abrupt changes of life.
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J.M.G. Le Clézio
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, better known as J.M.G. Le Clézio (born 13 April 1940) is a Franco-Mauriciano novelist. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal (The Interrogation) and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Anne Laurel Carter
Anne Laurel Carter has been a waitress, baker, store clerk, fruit picker and milked cows. Her all-time favourite job was being a school librarian. She often writes about experiences she, her siblings, her friends, her four children, even complete strangers had, or she imagines they had, and then embellishes. Liberally. She divides her year, writing and teaching, between Toronto and Nova Scotia.
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Mineke Schipper
Mineke Schipper is a Dutch author of non-fiction and fiction. As a scholar she is best known for her work on comparative literature mythologies and intercultural studies.
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Mineke Schipper studied French and Philosophy at Amsterdam Free University and Literary Theory, followed by Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Utrecht. She started her career teaching French and African Literature at the Université Libre du Congo (between 1964 and 1972). She received her PhD in Amsterdam in 1973, writing the first thesis in the Netherlands on African literature) and dedicated herself to developing the field of intercultural literary studies. In 1988 she became the first Professor of Intercultural Literary Studies in the Netherlands, at the Fr -
Stanley Lane-Poole
Stanley Lane-Poole was a British orientalist and archaeologist.
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Poole was from a famous orientalist family as his paternal grandmother Sophia Lane Poole, uncle Reginald Stuart Poole and great-uncle Edward William Lane were famous for their work in this field.
His other great-uncle was Richard James Lane, a distinguished Victorian lithographer and engraver.
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José Cardoso Pires
JOSÉ CARDOSO PIRES nasceu na em São João do Peso, concelho de Vila de Rei, distrito de Castelo Branco, a 2 de Outubro de 1925. Estudante na Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, trocou as matemáticas superiores pela marinha mercante. Entre 1969 e 1971, foi docente de Literatura Portuguesa e Brasileira no King’s College, em Londres. Foi director literário de editoras lisboetas e director-adjunto do Diário de Lisboa (1974-75). Estreou-se com Os Caminheiros e Outros Contos (1949) e obteve o Prémio Camilo Castelo Branco com o romance O Hóspede de Job (1964). Dentro do neo-realismo, retoma a tradição satírica setecentista. Entre outros, escreveu os romances O Delfim (1968), Dinossauro Excelentíssimo (1972), Balada da Praia dos Cães (1982, Prémio da A
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Robert Anthony
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Dr. Anthony has spent over 30 years studying mind power development. This includes a doctorate in psychology, clinical hypnosis, and a master certification in NLP. He has authored several books including Beyond Positive Thinking which have sold over 3 million copies worldwide in 22 countries. He has dozens of audio training programs including the Secret of Deliberate Creation, which is one best-selling personal development programs in the world. Dr. Anthony has appeared on numerous television programs and has been a consultant to individuals from all walks of life including entrepreneurs, personal development trainers, hypnotists, couples, students, authors -
A.R. Azzam
Dr Abdul Rahman Azzam is a graduate of Oxford University where he completed his BA and PhD in history. He is the author of RUMI AND THE KINGDOM OF JOY (Muhammadi Trust, 2000) and in 2007 Longman published his biography of Saladin to critical acclaim. The Edinburgh Evening News called it ‘a comprehensive survey not just of the man, but of the age in which he lived’, the FT Weekend described it as ‘absorbing’ and The Irish News praised the book as ‘timely and well-written'. SALADIN was a bestseller when published in Arabic and was selected in Jordan as one of the top one hundred books on Islam. THE OTHER EXILE, about the St Helena Island hermit, Fernão Lopes, a real-life Robinson Crusoe, was published in May 2017, and he is working on THE RET
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Maurice Bucaille
Maurice Bucaille was a French medical doctor, member of the French Society of Egyptology, and an author. Bucaille practiced medicine from 1945–82 and was a specialist in gastroenterology. In 1973, Bucaille was appointed family physician to King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Another of his patients at the time included members of the family of then President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
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James Henry Breasted
James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to professor, and was the first chair in Egyptology and Oriental History in the United States. In 1919 he became the founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
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Salma
Salma is a writer of Tamil poetry and fiction. Based in the small town of Thuvarankurichi, she is recognised as a writer of growing importance in Tamil literature. Her work combines a rare outspokenness about taboo areas of the traditional Tamil women’s experience with a language of compressed intensity and startling metaphoric resonance.
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With the film, she thinks that she has truly arrived. Salma the film, through a series of interviews, tries to bring to light the realities that have shaped the poet, of how she would write hiding in the toilet because she could not pick up a pen outside. -
Zoltan Torey
The late Zoltan Torey was a clinical psychologist and independent scholar and the author of The Crucible of Consciousness: An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain (MIT Press).
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Salim T.S. Al-Hassani
In September 2009, Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani was granted an Honorary Fellowship of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, now the British Science Association for his work to promote the scientific and technological achievements within Muslim cultures. The Honorary Fellowship of the British Science Association is a distinguished honour, conferred to date on about 90 people.
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In February 2009, Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani was presented the Building Bridges Award by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists.
In 2001, Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani received the Fazlur Rahman Khan award for excellence in engineering, science and technology.
Current Position :
Salim T S Al-Hassani is an Emeritus Professor Mechanical Engineeri -
Duncan Pritchard
Duncan Pritchard FRSE is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His main research area is epistemology, and he has published widely in this field, including the books Epistemic Luck (2005), Knowledge (2009), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (with A. Millar & A. Haddock, 2010), and Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012). In 2007 he was awarded a Phillip Leverhulme Prize for his research. In 2011 he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Selvedin Avdić
Selvedin Avdić is a Bosnian author and journalist. His first book was a collection of short stories titled "Tennants and other Fantoms" and it was a tourist guide to the historic Bosnian town of Jajca and a factual account of Zenica prison.
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Furthermore, his short stories have also appeared in various anthologies and collections. He works as the editor-in-chief of the online magazine Žurnal and also edits his own radio show, Free Fight, on BH Radio. His first novel, Seven Terrors, was published in 2010, and immediately short-listed for one of the most prestigious literary awards in the region. It was published in English in 2012 (translation by Coral Petkovich) and is long-listed for the Dublin Impac Literary Award 2014. -
Ahmad Abdulatif
روائي ومترجم عن الإسبانية وصحفي بجريدة أخبار الأدب. ولد عام 1978. حصل على الليسانس في اللغة الإسبانية وآدابها من كلية اللغات والترجمة، وحصل على الماجيستير في الأدب المقارن من جامعة أوتونوما دي مدريد.
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أعماله الإبداعية:
"صانع المفاتيح" عام 2010، عن دار العين
وحصلت على جائزة الدولة التشجيعية 2012
رواية "عالم المندل" 2012 عن دار العين
"كتاب النحات" 2013 طبعة أولى عن دار آفاق وطبعة ثانية عن دار العين
وفارت بالمركز الأول في جائزة ساويرس الثقافية عام 2015ـ
"إلياس" 2014 ـ دار العين
"حصن التراب: حكاية عائلة موريسكية" 2017 -دار العين
ووصلت إلى القائمة الطويلة لجائزة البوكر العربية
"سيقان تعرف وحدها مواعيد الخروج"2019 ـ دار العين
مجموعة "مملكة مارك زوكربيرج وطيوره الخرافية" 2021- دار المتوسط
وفازت بجائزة ساويرس فرع كبار الأدباء 2023
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Miles Copeland Jr.
Miles Axe Copeland, Jr. was an American intelligence officer, businessman and musician who was closely involved in major foreign-policy operations from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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At the outbreak of World War II, Copeland contacted Rep. John Sparkman of Alabama, who got him a job with Army Intelligence. Showing promise, he was one of the founding members of the OSS and later the CIA under William "Wild Bill" Donovan; serving in London, he became a lifelong Anglophile and married Lorraine Adie, a Scot then serving in the Special Operations Executive. He remained with the office as it was transformed into the Central Intelligence Agency. Among his first postings was Damascus, Syria, beginning a long career in the Middle East. Working closely with -
Abdullah II of Jordan
(Arabic: عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين)
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The 41st-generation direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him), His Majesty King Abdullah II assumed his constitutional powers as monarch on 7 February 1999.
Following the leadership legacy of his father, the late King Hussein, King Abdullah has made the welfare of Jordan’s people the cornerstone of his policies for national development, regional peace and global coexistence. The King’s special concern for the future of Jordan’s young people has put youth engagement, education and opportunity at the top of his agenda. At home, he has paired economic reforms with political liberalisation and an innovative program of national development. He has overseen sweeping educational reforms, which t -
Haytham El Wardany
· مواليد 1972 الجيزة.
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· حاصل على بكالوريوس هندسة كهربائية من جامعة القاهرة 1995.
· يعيش حاليا ما بين برلين والقاهرة، ويعمل كمحرر في موقع دويتشه فيله باللغة العربية.
· نشر عددا من النصوص المتفرقة في عدد من المجلات والدوريات الثقافية (أمثلة: أمكنة، زوايا، أخبار الأدب، Starship). وصدرت له مجموعتان قصصيتان، احداهما مشتركة (خيوط على دوائر – شرقيات 1995) والأخرى منفردة (جماعة الأدب الناقص – ميريت 2003).
· قام بعمل بعض الترجمات عن الألمانية (أمثلة: فالتر بنيامين، فولفجانج هيرمان)، وصدرت ترجمات لبعض أعماله.
· ينشط من حين لآخر في مجال الفيديو، وله بعض الأفلام القصيرة المشتركة. شارك مؤخرا في تنظيم معرض فني يدور حول امكانية الحياة على هامش الاقتصاد الحديث، عُرض في جمعية NGBK (الجمعية الجديدة للفنون البصرية) - برلين 2004
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Mohamed Naeem محمد نعيم
وُلِد محمد نعيم في عام 1977 بمدينة نصر شرق القاهرة لأسرة تهتمُّ بالشأن العام والثقافة كمعيارَيْن للجدارة الإنسانية. تخرَّج في كلية التجارة جامعة عين شمس، وعمل مُبكِّرًا في القطاع المالي والمصرفي داخل وخارج مصر. يُصنِّف نفسه شيوعيًّا منذ سِنِّ السابعة عشرة. هاجر في منتصف عشرينيَّاته إلى أستراليا، وفي بداية ثلاثينيَّاته عاد منها إلى مصر قبيل ثورة يناير 2011، حيث استأنف نشاطه السياسي والفكري والكتابي في عددٍ من الصُّحف والمواقع الإلكترونية. لم يَعُد له موطن مُحدَّد منذ منتصف ثلاثينياته، حيث يعيش بين أربع قارَّات، وستِّ دول، أو إحدى عشرة مدينة، وسبعة عشر منزلًا، أو أكثر.
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Robert McNamara
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Joca Reiners Terron
Joca Reiners Terron nasceu em Cuiabá, em 1968, e vive em São Paulo. Poeta, prosador, tradutor e designer gráfico, foi editor da Ciência do Acidente, selo que resgatou nomes importantes da literatura brasileira do final do século XX, como José Agrippino de Paula, Manoel Carlos Karam e Valêncio Xavier, e pela qual publicou o romance Não há nada lá (depois relançado pela Companhia das Letras) e o livro de poemas Animal anônimo. É autor também dos volumes de contos Hotel Hell, Curva de rio sujo e Sonho interrompido por guilhotina. Dele, a Companhia das Letras publicou Do fundo do poço se vê a lua, vencedor do prêmio Machado de Assis na categoria melhor romance. É criador e curador da coleção “Otra Língua” (Editora Rocco) que divulga autores iné
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Robert Solé
Robert Solé is a French journalist and novelist of Egyptian origin. Born in Cairo in 1946, Solé moved to France at the age of 18. He has served as ombudsman of the Parisian newspaper Le Monde. His works of fiction include Le Tarbouche (winner of the Prix Mediterranée in 1992) and La Mamelouka.
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Thomas Russell Pasha
Sir Thomas Wentworth Russell, better known as Russell Pasha, was a police officer in the Egyptian service. He was the fourth child and third son of the Rev. Henry Charles Russell, the grandson of the sixth duke of Bedford, and his wife, Leila Louisa Millicent Willoughby, the daughter of the eighth Baron Middleton.
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He was invited to visit Cairo by Percy Machell, a distant cousin, then adviser to the Egyptian minister of the interior. He came home to graduate and then entered the Egyptian service in October 1902.
As the director of the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau (CNIB), Russell Pasha became an anti-drug campaigner when he realised that opium, heroin, cocaine and hashish were being smuggled into Egypt in great and increasing quantiti -
Taghreed Najjar
Taghreed Najjar is the founder of Al Salwa Publishing House. She is also a writer of children books and educational material related to story books. She works closely with schools and presents workshops for teachers and children. Many of her books have been adopted as supplementary readers by schools in the region.
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Taghreed enjoys visiting schools for “meet the author” events and for story reading sessions of her latest books. She says, “It is an exhilarating experience interacting with my readers. I feel truly privileged to be a part of their childhood memories through my books.”
Some of her titles have been translated and published in English, Italian, Swedish, Turkish adn French.
Taghreed has travelled to many parts of the world to read h -
Ángel González
Nació en Oviedo el 6 de septiembre de 1925. Su infancia se vio fuertemente marcada por la muerte de su padre, fallecido cuando apenas tenía dieciocho meses de edad. La descomposición del seno familiar continuó durante la Guerra Civil Española, cuando su hermano Manolo fue asesinado por el bando franquista en 1936. Posteriormente su hermano Pedro se exilió por sus actividades republicanas y su hermana Maruja no pudo ejercer como maestra por el mismo motivo. En 1943 enferma de tuberculosis, por lo que inicia un lento proceso de recuperación en Páramo del Sil, donde se aficiona a leer poesía y empieza a escribirla él mismo. Tres años más tarde se halla ya por fin recuperado, aunque siempre arrastrará una insuficiencia respiratoria que al cabo
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Ali Bader
Ali Bader (Arabic: علي بدر) is an award winning Arabic novelist and a Filmmaker. He studied philosophy and French literature at Baghdad University. He worked as a journalist and war correspondent covering the Middle East for a number of newspapers and magazines.
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Mohammed Hussein Haikal محمد حسين هيكل
(السيرة الذاتية باللغة العربية أدناه)
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Mohammed Hussein Heikal[a] (Arabic: محمد حسين هيكل Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mæˈħæmmæd ħeˈseːn ˈheːkæl]; August 20, 1888 – December 8, 1956) was an Egyptian writer, journalist, politician. He held several cabinet posts, including minister of education.
He obtained a B.A. in Law in 1909 and a PhD from the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1912.
While a student in Paris, he composed what is considered the first authentic Egyptian novel, Zaynab. After returning to Egypt, he worked as a lawyer for 10 years, then as a journalist. He published articles in Al Jarida. He was the cofounder of Al Siyasa newspaper, the organ of the Liberal Constitutionalist party for which he was also an adviser and was also ele -
Ahmed Deedat
Ahmed Deedat was a Muslim thinker, author, and orator on comparative religion from South Africa.
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He was born in India in 1918 and moved to South Africa in 1927.
He taught himself English and studied various religions, especially Christianity and Islam and became famous for his public debates with Christian missionaries and evangelists, as well as his books and lectures on Islam and the Bible.
He founded the Islamic Propagation Centre International in Durban, South Africa, to train Muslims in spreading the message of Islam.
Ahmed passed away in 2005 after suffering a stroke