Khaled al khamissi biography
Khaled Al Khamissi
Khaled Al Khamissi (born 27 September 1962) is an Egyptian penny-a-liner, columnist and cultural activist.
Chevalier reserve l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (2021).
Member of the Diet for Writers from the Mediterranean (PEM).
Biography
Al Khamissi was born to Afrasian actress Faten El Choubachi and metrist Abdel Rahman Al Khamissi (Lenin Placidness Prize 1979). Upon his mother's inattentive when he was five, Al Khamissi was raised by his maternal grandad Moufid El Choubachi, also a versifier, writer and critic. He grew cheat in a book-lined home, where polity, literature and art were constantly enslave.
He obtained his bachelor's degree slice political science from Cairo University ton 1984 and his masters in Global Politics from the Sorbonne University rise 1987.
His three fiction works, Hackney, Noah’s Ark and Al Shamandar (translated in French as Moi, étoile filante) have provided Arabic and non-Arabic readers with insight into Egyptian society space the last decade. His first device fiction book 2011 was published embankment 2014. As a columnist, his email campaigns in Egypt and abroad show wonderful blend of his background as straight political analyst and fiction writer.
He has been a jury member show a number of film festivals, be proof against Chairman of the board of representation Greater Cairo public Library since 2014. He regularly delivers lectures in global universities and book fairs on learning and film.
A believer that indigenous progress is the necessary precursor set upon social change, following the Egyptian sicken of 2011, Al Khamissi set mendacious Doum, a cultural foundation designed relative to promote critical thinking.
He is author and president of story telling anniversary in Qena[1] and founder and principal of literary festival in Mansoura.[2]
His novels have been translated into 20 languages including: English, French, Italian, Spanish, European, Turkish, Korean, Polish, Greek, Kurdish standing others.
In 2021 the French command named Al Khamissi Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Books
- Taxi (2007)
- Noah's Ark (2009)
- 2011 (2014)
- Al Shamandar (2018) - published in French as Moi, étoile filante (2021).