Yusuf Idris

Yusuf Idris was born on 19 May 1927 in the province of Sharqiya, at Faqous (in the village of al-Bayrum according to Encyclopedia.com). His father worked on land reclamation and the child grew up in the villages, according to Al-Ahram. A medical student in Cairo, he was imprisoned for his activism against the British occupation and King Farouk. A doctor at the Qasr al-Aini hospital, he began to write, and was imprisoned again in 1954, according to Britannica, for his opposition to the regime. He died in London in 1991.

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• Short storiesجمهورية فرحاتYusuf Idris · 1956not translated into EnglishLiterature