02:25 PM
Monday 12 September 2022
Books – Masrawy:
Today, Monday, the great writer Ibrahim Abdel Majid tweeted, through his personal account on “Twitter”, saying: “It seems that I will not write other stories. I have a novel that I finished before the illness trip and I do not want to look at it to publish it, and I also kept forgetting to listen to classical music.” The one who makes me forget everything.
Abdul Majeed added: “I am writing articles in order to regain my mind following a difficult year, but my soul has gone, where I do not know.”
Businessman Naguib Sawiris responded to Abdel Meguid, immediately following he posted the tweet, saying: “Your soul is with us here.”
The great writer Ibrahim Abdel Meguid was born in Alexandria in late 1946, where he spent his childhood and the early years of his youth before moving to Cairo. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, Alexandria University, and has lived in Cairo since 1974.
Abdel Meguid writes for Egyptian and Arab newspapers and magazines; Such as Al-Ahram, news, life, literature, the seventh day, the crescent moon, and others. He published fifteen novels; Including “The Distances”, which were translated into English by Syracuse University in the United States and the publishing department at the American University in Cairo in 2008, and “The Fisherman and the Dove”, which was turned into a movie starring Ashraf Abdel Baqi, and “The House of Jasmine” was translated into French in 2000 and into Italian in 2000. 2008, “The Other Town” and translated into English, French and German, “Jellyfish”, which was turned into a TV series starring Athar Al-Hakim and Mahmoud Kabil, and “Nobody Sleeps in Alexandria”, which was turned into a TV series starring Majed Al-Masry and Suheir Al-Murshidi. Ibrahim Abdel Meguid has received many awards; These include the Naguib Mahfouz Award from the American University in 1996, the State Appreciation Award in Literature from the Supreme Council of Culture in 2007, and the State Award for Excellence in Literature from the Supreme Council of Culture in 2004.
