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Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi

Died in 1987

Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi was born on 20 November 1920 into a peasant family in the province of Menufiya. A law graduate of Cairo University according to The New Arab, he devoted himself to journalism and writing, edited Rose al-Youssef according to the BnF and founded the magazine al-Katib. The author of more than twenty books, novels, short stories, poems and plays, he received the State Appreciation Prize in 1974 and was, according to The New Arab, secretary general of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation. He died on 10 November 1987.

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