Ṣunʿ Allāh Ibrāhīm

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Also Known As	Sunallah Ibrāhīm • Sonallah Ibrāhīm
Born	1937 (age 88) • Cairo • Egypt
Notable Works	“The Committee” • “The Smell of It, & Other Stories”

Alaa al-Aswany

Egyptian author

Nawal El Saadawi

Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, author, and feminist

Naguib Mahfouz

Egyptian writer

Ṭāhā Ḥusayn

Egyptian author

Yūsuf Idrīs

Egyptian writer

ʿAbbās Maḥmūd al-ʿAqqād

Egyptian author

Ameen Rihani

Arab American author and political figure

G.K. Chesterton

British author

Tom Wolfe

American author

Salwa Al Neimi

Syrian author and journalist

Marya Mannes

American author and critic

Thomas Bernhard

Austrian writer

Khalil Gibran

Lebanese-American author

al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ

Sudanese writer

al-Suyūṭī

Egyptian author

Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm

Egyptian author

Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm

Egyptian poet

Sayyid Quṭb

Egyptian writer

Aḥmad Shawqī

Egyptian poet

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev

Russian writer and scholar

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