Qamḥāwī, ʻIzzat

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Name (Latin)
Qamḥāwī, ʻIzzat
Name (Arabic)
القمحاوي، عزت
Other forms of name
Qamḥāwī, ʻIzzat, 1961-
El Kamhawi, Ezzat
Kamhawi, Ezzat El
قمحاوي، عزت
Date of birth
1961
Associated country
Egypt
Occupation
Authors
Journalists
Associated Language
ara
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 42258265
Wikidata: Q2429601
Library of congress: nr 93048587
Sources of Information
  • His Ḥadatha fī bilād al-turāb wa-al-ṭīn, 1992:t.p. (ʻIzzat al-Qamḥāwī)
  • House of the wolf, 2013:title page (Ezzat El Kamhawi) flap (Egyptian novelist and journalist, was born in 1961 and studied journalism at Cairo University; he is the editor-in-chief of al-Doha Cultural Magazine; author of ten books, including four novels and two collections of short stories)
  • ספר: مدينة اللذة, ٢٠٠٩م ١٤٣٠هج.
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Wikipedia description:

Ezzat El Kamhawi (Arabic: عزت القمحاوي) is an Egyptian novelist and journalist. In December 2012, El Kamhawi was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel House of the Wolf. In June 2022 he was awarded the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press (Opinion Piece category) for his article "Suspicious architecture: The obsession with grand buildings and wide streets". He was born in 1961 and graduated from the department of journalism in the Faculty of Mass Communications, Cairo University in 1983.

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