Ibrahim Abdelmeguid is an award-winning Egyptian novelist and author. He was born in 1946 in Alexandria Egypt. He obtained a BA in Philosophy from Alexandria University in 1973 and left to live in Cairo in 1975. He is so far the author of 21 novels and six short story collections. He also writes articles on literature and politics. Among his best known are No One Sleeps in Alexandria (1999), Birds of Amber(2005), The Other Place (2004), The House of Jasmine (2005), The Hunter and the Doves (2006) and The Threshold of Pleasure (2007). He has also published a book about the Egyptian revolution, Days of Tahrir (2011). Several of his novels have been translated into French and into English, as well as other languages. He received both the Egyptian State Prize for Literature and the Sawiris Prize for his novel In Every Week there is a Friday (2009). Some of his work has been adapted for television and film.
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