Director of the Manuscript Center/Museum, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Professor of Philosophy and History of Science.
Awards and Grants: - 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) In Association with the Booker Prize Foundation - Imam Muhammad Madi Abul-鈥楢za鈥檌m Award in the field of Islamic studies in 1995. - 鈥楢bdul-Hamid Shuman Prize in the field of social studies in 1996 for his book Faw膩鈥檌h al-Jam膩l wa Faw膩鈥檌h al Jal膩l- 鈥楩ragrance of Beauty & Revelations of the Magestic鈥� by Nijm al-D墨n Kubr膩. - A special Award from the International Academy of Learning in 1996 for his academic corpus.
The book is a short story collection written by the writer Yusef Zidan, and each story is different from the other and speaks about the Egyptian lanes, customs and traditions in these residential areas in Cairo, and the book appears to us in a mysterious but rapid and deep narrative.
The book consists of fourteen short stories that are different events but are somewhat related to space and time. The book is written in a distinctive style in the narration by the great writer Yusef Zidan, especially he has a distinctive touch in his writings and more precisely about the Egyptian reality in the popular dialogue and brings us to this simple, beautiful and eventful world Simplicity in living and multiple struggles with life. The beautiful in these stories is the speed of adapting to the stories and the diversity in them even though it speaks as if in one place, and it shows us the social life in the popular neighborhoods in Egypt, especially Cairo, and the most important internal conflicts for this group of people, and another distinguishing factor is each story has a special message and explores it With his reading and some may have lived on these things, I liked many stories, but two or three of these fourteen stories were somewhat medium.