Abd El Rahman El Sharqawy

An Egyptian poet, writer, and journalist. He began his education in village books, then moved to government school classes, and graduated from the Faculty of Law at Fouad I University in 1943. He worked as a lawyer after graduating, then decided to leave the law to work in journalism, until he published a poem entitled “A Letter from an Egyptian Father to President Truman” in 1951, and followed it with his first novel, “The Earth” in 1954. He has many works in cinema and theater, as well as television, among his most prominent works. (The Land, Al-Nasir Salah al-Din, The Back Streets), he passed away in 1987.