Gamal al-Ghitani

Gamal al-Ghitani was born on 9 May 1945 in Juhayna, in Sohag province, and grew up in Cairo, in the Gamaliya district according to Coptic Solidarity. Trained in carpet design, he was imprisoned from the autumn of 1966 to the spring of 1967 for his criticism of Nasser's regime. He joined the newspaper Akhbar al-Youm in 1969 and was a war correspondent in 1973. In 1993 he founded the magazine Akhbar al-Adab, which he edited until 2011. He received the Sheikh Zayed Prize in 2009 and died in Cairo on 18 October 2015.

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• NovelZayni Barakatالزيني بركاتGamal al-Ghitani · 1974Literature