Jacqueline Chabbi, born in 1943, is a French historian, professor of Arabic studies at L'Université de Paris-VIII (Paris Saint-Denis). She's specialized in medieval Islamic world history.
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of t…
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess …
Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist and filmmaker, born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. Her most famous novel, and film of the same name is Baise-moi, a contemporary example of the exploitat…
Theodor Nöldeke (1836-1930) was a German orientalist and scholar. His research interests ranged over Old Testament studies, Semitic languages and Arabic, Persian and Syriac literature. Nöldeke transla…
The Sudanese writer al-Tayyib Salih (Arabic: الطيب صالح)has been described as the "genius of the modern Arabic novel." He has lived abroad for most of his life, yet his fiction is firmly rooted in the…
Su Tong (simplified Chinese: 苏童; traditional Chinese: 蘇童; pinyin: Sū Tóng; born January 23, 1963) is the pen name of Chinese writer Tong Zhonggui (童忠贵 Tóng Zhōngguì). He was born in Suzhou and lives i…
Bartol was born on February 24, 1903 in San Giovanni (Slovene: Sveti Ivan), a suburb of the Austro-Hungarian city of Trieste (now in Italy), as the third child of seven children of a middle class Slov…
Robert G. Hoyland is a scholar and historian, specializing in the medieval history of the Middle East. He is a former student of historian Patricia Crone and was a Leverhulme Fellow at Pembroke Colleg…
معروف الرصافي وهو معروف بن عبد الغني بن محمود الجباري، شاعر عراقي من أب كردي ينتسب لعشيرة الجبارة التي تسكن مدينة كركوك، وأم تركمانية من عشائر القره غول والتي يرجع أصولها إلى قبيلة الشاة السوداء الترك…
ولد زكي نجيب محمود عام 1905، في بلدة ميت الخولي عبد الله، بمحافظة دمياط. تخرج من كلية المعلمين العليا بمصر، عام 1930. في عام 1933 بدأ في كتابة سلسلة من المقالات عن الفلاسفة المحدثين في مجلة الرسالة. و…
فرج فوده كاتب و مفكر مصري ولد في ببلدة الزرقا بمحافظة دمياط في مصر، حاصل على ماجستير العلوم الزراعية و دكتوراه الفلسفة في الاقتصاد الزراعي من جامعة عين شمس، متزوج ورزق بلدين وإبنتين، توفي في 8 يونيو 1…
سيد القمني من مواليد 13 مارس 1947 بمدينة الواسطى في محافظة بني سويف، معظم أعماله الأكاديمية تناولت منطقة شائكة في التاريخ الإسلامي. البعض يعتبره باحثاً في التاريخ الإسلامي من وجهة نظر ماركسية والبعض ا…
Ahlam Mosteghanemi (Arabic: أحلام مستغانمي ) is an Algerian author and the first female Algerian author of Arabic-language works to be translated into English. By the time she was born, Mosteghanemi'…
The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics…
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…
غيّب الموت الكاتبة سناء المصري التي رحلت عن 42 عاماً، قضت معظمها في العمل العام ما بين الشأن الثقافي والسياسي. ويلفت النظر في موت المصري أنه جاء موتاً هادئاً من دون صخب، وهو شيء نادر من قبل هذه المرأة…
Mohammed Hasan Alwan (Arabic: محمد حسن علوان) is a Saudi Arabian novelist and the Chief Executive Officer of the Literature, Publishing, and Translation Commission affiliated with the Ministry of Cult…
French-Rwandan Gaël Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwa…
is an Egyptian author, judge and legal scholar. He worked in the public prosecutor's office for many years and served as a judge in the Egyptian court of appea…
دكتور أسامة عبد الرؤف الشاذلي – طبيب وكاتب وروائي مصري من مواليد عام ١٩٧٤. حصل على درجة الدكتوراة في جراحة العظام من جامعة عين شمس عام ٢٠٠٧. كما حصل على زمالة علاج الكسور من ألمانيا عام ٢٠٠٥. يعمل حال…
