The Author was born in Alexandria,
Egypt, in 1958, but lived in Cairo thereafter
and graduated from College De La Salle, in 1975, to join the Cairo
University Faculty of Medicine.
He then graduated in 1981; finished his Internship in the Cairo
University hospitals, worked for a year as a Health Inspector in Torrah
طره
, a Cairoan suburb and frequented the infamous prison
سجن طره
there for a year, and started residence in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in
Cairo, for a short while, and then immigrated to United States in
October of 1984.
He specialized in the treatment of Chronic Pain which got him in touch
with people's suffering and probably instigated his poetic inclination.
He settled in Maryland a mid Atlantic State bordering the cultural
centers of Washington DC and Virginia and Baltimore and Annapolis.
He only suddenly started to write in April of 2000, an unforeseen and
unexplainable compelling urge that overwhelmed him at the time.
He had always enjoyed literature, and admired Naguib Mahfouz نجيب محفوظ
and Salah Jaheen صلاح جاهين , , his favorites, but he also
enjoyed Louis Awad د. لويس عوض , Tawfik El Hakeem توفيق
الحكيم , Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Beiram El Tounsi بيرم
التونسى and is currently discovering the writings of Salama
Moussa سلامه موسى ..
More recently, an introductory review of Dawayer دواير , was
published in Weghat Nazar نظر وجهات , June 2004 issue
in “new publications” section.
The author had published two albums of musical hymns previously,
of his poetry. The first was "Stories from The Book of Love" (حواديت من
كتاب الحب) published in 2002in Cairo. The album received a decent
acceptance and instigated the poet and writer Francois Bassili
باسيلى فرانسوا , to write an article about it
published in two local newspapers in the US in October 2002.
The second album was "Tribulation " (الدنيا ساعات بتضيق)
published in 2003, orchestrated and produced by a famous US Jazz
musician, Joe Ercole, which led to a published article by Magdi Khalil
in Watani in January 2003.
He has also published two poems in Elaph, an electronic newspaper
published on the Internet, and five poems in Watani وطنى in 2002
and 2003.
He has also published a book review in Watani, in November 2003 ,
about Alaa El Aswani's علاء الأسوانى "Emaret Ya'akoubian
يعقوبيان عمارة ".
He has an upcoming poetry book tittled ‘حواديت من كتاب
الحب ‘ and a collection of short stories “ مِهاجرين”
awaiting publication.
Sample
author's work :
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