Bahaa Taher

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Bahaa Taher (* 1935 in Cairo , Egypt ) is an Egyptian author and translator .

Life

Taher graduated from Cairo University with a degree in literature . He then worked for Radio 2 , the cultural channel of the Egyptian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1964 he published his first short story. As a youth he was a supporter of leftist ideas and supported the development program of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser for his country. The fact that Nasser's successor Anwar al-Sadat ended this policy is, in his eyes, a disaster for Egypt. After he was banned from writing in 1975 and lost his job at the radio, he left the country in 1981. He tried to work as a translator in various countries in Asia and Africa. He lived in Switzerland in the 1980s and 1990sand worked there as a translator for the United Nations in Geneva . During these years his first novels were published in Arabic.

Taher now lives and works in Egypt again. He is one of the founders of the opposition Kifajabewegung that early one end of Mubarakregimes demanded and thus a foundation for the breaks by the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 was.

Publications

  • Shark an-naġil (de: east of the palm trees), Dar al-mustaqbal al-'arabi, Cairo 1985, previously published in 1983 in the daily newspaper Sabah al-Khayr .
  • Qālat Ḏuḥa , Dar al-Hilal, Cairo 1985. Previously published in serial in the same year in the newspaper al-Musawwir.
  • Ġālatī Ṣafīya wa ʾd-dair , 1991
  • Al-ḥab fi ʾm-manaf ( Eng : love in exile ), Dār al-Hilāl, Cairo 1995 ISBN 977-0703915 .
  • Naqḏat ʾn-nur ( The point of light ), 1999
  • Wāhat al-ġurūb (German sunset oasis ), 2007

Prizes and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stay away from our revolution in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on May 20, 2012, page 18
personal data
SURNAME Taher, Bahaa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo , Egypt