Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He has won a Pulitzer Prize and three National Magazine Awards.
Ervand Abrahamian (B.A., M.A., Oxford University; Ph.D. Columbia University), an Armenian born in Iran and raised in England, is well qualified by education and experience to teach world and Middle Ea…
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University o…
Asef Bayat (Ph.D. University of Kent 1984) (Persian: آصف بیات) is Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was Professor of Sociology and Mid…
A specialist in the history of East Africa and Sudan, Robert O. Collins was Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he taught from 1965 to 1994.
ROGER ROSENBLATT, whose work has been published in 14 languages, is the author of five New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and three Times bestsellers, including the memoirs KAYAK MORNING, THE B…
A specialist in the social and cultural history of nineteenth-century Egypt, Khaled Fahmy teaches modern Middle eastern and North African history at Tufts University.
" Mahmoud Hussein " est le pseudonyme commun de deux auteurs : Baghgat Elnadi (né en 1936) et Adel Rifaat (né en 1938). Tous deux Egyptiens - l'un est d'origine musulmane ; l'autre d'origine juive, ma…
يسري فودة Yosri Fouda (Arabic: يسري فودة Yusrī Fūdah, IPA: [ˈjosɾi ˈfuːdæ]), born in Egypt, is a journalist who initially worked for the BBC's short-lived Arabic-subsidiary covering the ongoing strugg…
كاتب وصحفى ومؤرخ ولد فى 4 اكتوبر عام 1939 فى قرية " بشلا " بمحافظة الدقهلية حصل على بكالوريوس فى الخدمة الاجتماعية عام 1961 ورأس لمدة خمس سنوات عددا من الوحدات الاجتماعية بالريف المصرى بدأ حياته كاتبا…
حصل الاديب "جميل عطية ابراهيم" على شهادات دراسية متباينة ونتيجة لذلك عمل في مهن متعددة، فقد عمل قبل تخرجه من الجامعة كاتب حسابات في مصنع للنسيج في شبرا الخيمة ومدرساً للموسيقي للأطفال، وكذلك مدرساً لل…
ولد في الموصل شمال العراق، وتخرج من كلية التربية عام 1384هـ 1963م،ثم حصل على الماجستير في التاريخ الإسلامي من كلية الآداب بجامعة بغداد عام 1394هـ 1966م وكانت رسالته (طبقات خليفة بن خياط : دراسة وتحقيق…
Thomas Hegghammer is a Norwegian academic who has studied jihadism since before 9/11. He is senior research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) and adjuct professor of politic…
Adania Shibli (عدنية شبلي) was born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English with Clockroot Books as Touch (tr. Paula Haydar, 2010) and We Are All Equally Far From Love (tr. Paul…
Georgetown University, Department of History, Washington, DC PhD, July 2008 (focusing on socio-economic history) American University in Cairo, Egypt Research Fellow at Economic and Business History Re…
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of h…
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
Sir Thomas Wentworth Russell, better known as Russell Pasha, was a police officer in the Egyptian service. He was the fourth child and third son of the Rev. Henry Charles Russell, the grandson of the …
Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb (Arabic: سيد قطب) was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at th…
Arwa Saleh (Arabic: أروى صالح) was an Egyptian communist and feminist, who was a veteran student leader in the 1970s radical student movement. She was also a member of the central committee of the Mar…
