Edwar al-Kharrat

Edwar al-Kharrat was born in Alexandria on 16 March 1926, into a Coptic family. A law graduate of the University of Alexandria in 1946, he worked in a bank and an insurance company. Politically committed on the left, he spent two years in prison, from 1948 to 1950. Settled in Cairo, he was a translator at the Romanian embassy, then deputy secretary-general of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation according to Al Jazeera. He founded the magazine Galerie 68, received in 1999 the prize bearing the name of Naguib Mahfouz and died in Cairo on 1 December 2015.

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