Sonallah Ibrahim

Sonallah Ibrahim was born in Cairo on 3 August 1937, the son of a civil servant and of a mother of modest origin. A law student at Cairo University, he was active in a Marxist movement, was arrested in 1959 and spent five years in prison, until 1964. He then left for Berlin and Moscow, according to the London Review of Books, and returned in 1974. In 2003 he publicly refused a prize from the Egyptian Ministry of Culture. He died in Cairo on 13 August 2025.

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