Nabil Naoum

Nabil Naoum was born in Cairo in 1944. An engineer and a soil mechanics specialist according to the BnF, he worked for ten years in New York, where he began to write, and published his first novel in 1977. Back in Cairo in 1979, he opened a contemporary art gallery there. He writes in Arabic and has published essays on contemporary Arab art and on photography. Since 1993 he has divided his life between Cairo and Paris, according to the Berlin festival that welcomed him.

In the catalogue 1

• Short storiesLe voyage de RâNabil Naoum · 1988not translated into EnglishLiterature