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3 unusual facts about Ibrahim Aslan


Ibrahim Aslan

Aslan emerged on the Arab literary scene in the mid-1960s, and is considered to be part of the movement known as the Sixties Generation which also included such authors as Gamal Ghitany, Sonallah Ibrahim, and Abdel Hakim Qasem.

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Aslan is best known for his first novel Malek al-Hazin (1983), translated by Elliott Colla under the English title The Heron; and its sequel 16 years later called As-safir al-Nil (1999), translated as Nile Sparrows by Mona El-Ghobashy.

Mohammed Al-Sharekh

His stories were not published in books, but some of his production was published in Gallery 68 magazine with Edwar al-Kharrat and Ibrahim Aslan pieces.



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