Ghada Abdel Moneim
Ghada Abdel Moneim (غادة عبد المنعم) is an Egyptian writer and philosopher. One of reform advocates in Egypt , She has been active in enlightenment fields for twenty-five years now, and has a vision that the development considers the most important and may be the only way to reform.
Early life
Ghada was born at December 12, 1969 in house of her grandfather to her mother, in Sanbalawin City, Dakahlia, in Egypt, her father was a fighter in the Egyptian army, one of the heroes of October war and hails from a family of rural rich, where his father was “Sheikh El Ballad” of his village “ALZhaira”, and one of the few who have more than twenty acres (Period of the Prior to the July Revolution in 1952). Her mother was from an aristocratic family, who have received rural education interspersed with French education (because she received her education at the Holy Family which is French School) and traditional rural values ( from where she lived). Both her parents belonged to assets and education of the village of ALZhaira in the province of Dakahlia, the village where Ghada lived in for six years before receiving her college education in Sohag university at Upper Egypt. As for most of her childhood was spent as a child of an Egyptian family of middle-class in Cairo where she lived as a child, and going to a public district’s school while receiving her primary education (her school was called, Aziz, Egyptian pyramid).
Early career
Ghada Began writing stories in the age of nine and begin publishing poems, at seventeen. Critics described her poems as imarked by accurately imaging and concise statement, and having an ability to navigate using language within the layers of human feeling by concise eloquently and sensitive,where mixed the philosophical and intellectual views, by delicate sensitive moments. Where in overwhelming sense of loss and puzzling questions about existence.
Education
• Bachelor of Arts, Journalism Dept., Asyut University, 1991.
• Studied Egyptian folklore in Egyptian Academy of Arts
• Studied cinema with a number of private institutes
• Studied politics, economics, modern European history, As a part of European Master Studies, in Faculty of Economics, Cairo University
Awards
She won Suzanne Mubarak’s Prize for Children’s Literature, in 1999.
Achievements
• She created (write, directed, edit) an Egyptian children magazine called Medo, And she was aimed to active using the Egyptian and Arabic imagination to produce a modern stories and comic for children, modern stories witch inspired a new imagination source.
• She was among the pioneers ( about six or seven poets) who devised a new way of writing poem known in Egypt as nineties generation, And she has gained reputation as a good poet since 1991
• Ghada Abdel Moneim was the first Egyptian woman journalist working in Department of disc (re-writing press material) in 1991.
• She was The smallest Arab woman to serve as editor in chief where she is not the twenty-eighth position of chief editor of the magazine “Children of radio and television”, which was issued by the Egyptian Radio and TV Union in 1997.
• She Invented communication theory which called as ” theory of accepting others` power ” in 2010
• The first Egyptian writer and thinker believes that his mission is to develop a plan of development for Egypt, not merely to express discontent with the political situation prevailing.
Activities as a writer
Translator, film critic, authoress, poet, children writer, novelist and short story writer in addition to being an article concerned with politics and international relations and economics.
Profession
She is currently the deputy editor of Egyptian Radio and Television Magazine.
Bibliography
• “Me” a collection of poems published in 1996 – issued by the Supreme Council of Culture in Egypt
• Blue sky Tales a collection of children’s stories – published in 2002 by Egyptian culture palaces.
• “More than one way to die” a novel published in 1998.
• “happened in the beginning of the creation” which was a translated Book from English language for a collection of tales from Aino folklore – published by the Egyptian culture palaces.
• “Jzerat Elmlabes” (island of clothing) Two stories for children.
• Introduction to the theory ” accepting power of other ” .
• “A dream in Egypt’s construction” this book I a series of articles dealing with her vision and in it, she explains the methods and innovative solutions for some problems of Egypt in economic, politic and social issues.
• AlHewa ” the Gap” a collection of poems
• Old Articles a book includes some of her old articles
• (selections from the Brothers Grimm) a translated book.
• translation to Arabic Hans Christian Andersen story (Philosopher’s Stone).
• (Ice Maiden) translation for a novel by Hans Christian Andersen.
• Jziret El sham ( Island of the Sun) the first part of big children book (Fairies of seven Seas).
Member the following literary associations and unions
• Egyptian Writers Union
• Press Syndicate
• Union of Writers and Film Critics
• Association of Writers and Artists of Cairo (Cairo Atelier)
