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GHITANY Gamal

Gamal Ghitany is a writer and journalist, as well as the editor in chief of the literary weekly Akhbar el-Adab.

Among his publications:

- Zaynî Barakât, 1974 

- Waqâ'i' hârat al-Za'farânî, 1976 (The Zafarani Files)

- Kitâb al-tagalliyât, 1983-87 

- Risâlat al-basâ'ir fî l-masâ'ir, 1989 

- hat'h al-madîna, 1990

- Hâtif al-maghîb, 1992 

- Mutûn al-ahrâm, 1994 (Pyramid Texts, translated by Humphrey Davies, Cairo, American University in Cairo Press, 2007)

- Hikâyât al-mu'assasa, 1997 

- Muqârabat al-abad, 2000

- Nithâr al-mahw, 2005

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