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Hafez Ibrahim

Died in 1932

Hafez Ibrahim was born in 1871 near Dayrout, in Upper Egypt, on a boat moored on the bank of the Nile according to the University of Béjaïa, to an Egyptian engineer father and a Turkish mother. Orphaned of his father at the age of four, he grew up in Cairo and Tanta, left the Military School in 1891 and served in Sudan. In 1911, he took charge of the literary section of the National Library, which he headed until the end of his life. In 1903 he produced an Arabic translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. He died in Cairo in 1932.

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