Author: Ibrahim Aslan

Ibrahim Aslan (1937 2012) was born in Tanta in the Nile Delta. He published his first collection of short stories, Buhayrat al-misa” (“Evening Lake”), in 1971. His first novel Malik al-hazin (“The Heron, ” 1983) was adapted into the successful film Kit Kat. Mona al-Ghobashy is finishing a doctoral dissertation on contemporary Egyptian politics at Columbia University.