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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”
Marya Mannes
American author and critic
Alaa al-Aswany
Egyptian author
Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, author, and feminist
Naguib Mahfouz
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
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe
American author
Al Neimi, Salwa
Salwa Al Neimi
Syrian author and journalist
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian writer
Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
Lebanese-American author
Al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ.
al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ
Sudanese writer
al-Suyūṭī
Egyptian author
Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm
Egyptian author
Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm
Egyptian poet
Sayyid Quṭb
Egyptian writer
Shawqī, Aḥmad
Aḥmad Shawqī
Egyptian poet
Charles Bernard Nordhoff
American author