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Safwat Kamal

Died in 2009

Safwat Kamal was born in Cairo in 1931. A specialist in folklore and popular arts, in 1966 he left for Kuwait as an expert at the popular arts centre of the Ministry of Information, where he founded scholarly research on the country's folklore. There he published an introduction to the discipline, a study of marriage customs, in 1972, and four volumes of comparative proverbs written with the historian Ahmad al-Bishr al-Rumi. He died in March 2009.

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