Ibrahim Abdel Meguid is an award-winning Egyptian

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

 novelist and author. He was born in Alexandria

Alexandria

Alexandria is the second-largest city of Egypt, with a population of 4.1 million, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country; it is also the largest city lying directly on the Mediterranean coast. It is Egypt's largest seaport, serving...

 in 1946 and studied philosophy at Alexandria University

Alexandria University

Alexandria University is a university in Alexandria, Egypt. It was established in 1938 as a satellite of Fuad University , becoming an independent entity in 1942. It was known as Farouk University until the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 when its name was changed to the University of Alexandria...

. He obtained his BA in 1973 and moved to Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

 the following year. He published his first novel around the same time. Among his best known works are Birds of Amber, No One Sleeps in Alexandria and The Other Place. These have been translated into English and French. Abdel Meguid won the inaugural Naguib Mahfouz Medal for The Other Place.

Selected works

• Birds of Amber, translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab
• Distant Train, translated by Hosam M. Aboul-Ela
• No One Sleeps in Alexandria, translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab
• The Other Place, translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab

External links

• Article by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid in Al-Ahram on the Egyptian revolution
• Article by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid in Al-Ahram on the cinema halls of Alexandria