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Bahaa Taher
EgyptBahaa Taher 1935 - 2022 . We were honored to have him as a member of our board of trustees in arabworldbooks.com since 2004 until he passed away in October 2022. Bahaa Tahir also writtern Baha Taher, or Baha Tahir was born on 13 January 1935 in Cairo, Egypt. He earned a bac...
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Richard Jacquemond
He is professor of modern Arabic language and literature at the Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence (France). He has spent more than 15 years in Egypt as a student of Arabic language, a program officer at the French cultural mission and a researcher. Since his first st...
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Francis Boyle
Francis A. Boyle is professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law and also professor in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He was the Parhad Lecturer at the...
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Gaber Asfour
EgyptGaber Asfour was one of the most influential thinkers and literary critics in Egypt and the Arab World. We were honored to have him as a member of our board of trustees in arabworldbooks.com since 2004 until he passed away in December 2021. Born 25 March 1944 in El-Mahalla El-Ku...
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Abdel-Raouf El-Reedy
EgyptAbdel Raouf EL Reedy was born on 2 July 1932. He served as Ambassador Of Egypt To The United States in Washington DC from November 1984-1 July 1992. He is a member of Arab World Books board of trustees since 2004 He is currently Chairman of Board of MISR (Egypt) PUBLIC...
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Marilyn Booth
Marilyn Louise Booth is an author, scholar and translator of Arabic literature. She holds the Khalid bin Abdallah Al Saud Chair for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, Oriental Institute and Magdalen College, Oxford. In addition to academic publications, she has translated...
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Gamal Elghitani
EgyptGamal al-Ghitany (9 May 1945 – 18 October 2015) Al-ghitani was a member of Arab World Books board of trustees since 2004 and has been a great supporter until his passing. Gamal al-Ghitani - also spelt Gamal Elghitany was a novelist, shor...
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Liana Badr
PalestineLiana Badr was born in Jerusalem to a nationalist family, and was raised in Jericho. She obtained a BA in philosophy and psychology from the Beirut Arab University. She was not able to complete her MA due to the Lebanese civil war. She worked as a volunteer in various Palestinian...
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