Ahmed Abbas Saleh

He is considered one of the symbols of the Egyptian left, and the intellectual who enriched Egyptian and Arab cultural life with a number of works in literature, culture, and history. Most notable is his famous book “The Right and the Left in Islam,” which caused controversy after its publication in the seventies, and was one of the first books to address political Islam. Ahmed Abbas Saleh worked throughout the 1990s as a writer for Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper. His cinematic works include the film (Al-Shahat, Qaa Al-Madina). He died in 2006