Ḍaʻīf, Rashīd

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Ḍaʻīf, Rashīd
Name (Arabic)
الضعيف، رشيد
Other forms of name
Al-Daif, Rashid
El-Daif, Rashid
El Daif, Rachid
Daif, Rachid El
Al-Daif, Rachid
ضعيف، رشيد
Date of birth
1945
Place of birth
Zghartā (Lebanon)
Field of activity
Literature
Occupation
Authors
Associated Language
ara
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 99231703
Wikidata: Q717878
Library of congress: n 81038215
Sources of Information
  • Paving the sea, 2026:CIP title page (Rashid El-Daif)
  • Who's afraid of Meryl Streep?, 2014:t.p. (Rashid Al-Daif [in rom])
  • His Hīna hall al-sayf ʻalá al-Sayf, 1979:t.p. (Rashīd al-Daʻīf; Rachid El Daif [in rom.])
  • Daʻīf, Rashīd. This side of innocence, 2001:CIP t.p. (Rachid Al-Daif)
  • Passage to dusk, 2001:t.p. (Rashid al-Daif) introd. (b. 1945 in Zhgarta, a stronghold of Maronite Christians in northern Lebanon)
  • Learning English, 2009:title page (Rachid Al-Daif) inside back flap (author)
  • The Author's عزيزي السيد كواباتا, ٢٠٠١.

Wikipedia description:

Rashid El Daif (Arabic: رشيد الضيف) (or Rasheed Al-Daif, Rachid El-Daïf, Rachid Al-Daif) (born 6 August 1945) is a Lebanese poet and novelist. He has been translated into 14 languages. He has been referred to as "the Arab world's answer to Italo Calvino or Umberto Eco".

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