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Sonallah Ibrahim was born on 1937 in Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt, is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer. Discover Sonallah Ibrahim's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Age 87 years old
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Born 1937
Birthday 1937
Birthplace Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt
Nationality Egypt

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1937

Son'allah Ibrahim (صنع الله إبراهيم Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm) (born 1937) is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer and one of the "Sixties Generation" who is known for his leftist views which are expressed rather directly in his work.

His novels, especially later ones, incorporate many excerpts from newspapers, magazines and other political sources as a way to enlighten the people about a certain political or social issue.

Sonallah Ibrahim was born in Cairo in 1937.

His father was an upper-middle class civil servant; his mother, from a poor background, had been a nurse hired to look after his father's paralysed first wife.

1950

Despite the DMNL's support for Nasser's coup, Nasser moved to repress Communists in the late 1950s.

1952

Ibrahim entered Cairo University to study law in 1952.

There he joined the Marxist Democratic Movement for National Liberation (DMNL).

1959

Ibrahim, arrested in 1959, received a seven-year prison sentence from a military tribunal.

1960

Because of his political opinions he was imprisoned during the 1960s; his imprisonment is featured in his first book, That Smell (تلك الرائحة), which was one of the first writings in Egyptian literature to adopt a modernist tinge.

1964

He was released in 1964 on the occasion of Nikita Khrushchev visiting Egypt for the opening of the Aswan Dam.

1968

In 1968 Ibrahim was one of the Egyptian intellectuals who contributed to the avant-garde literary magazine Galerie 68.

Hosam Aboul-Ela of the University of Houston described Ibrahim as "a relentless internal critic of successive Egyptian regimes" and wrote that "Ibrahim might best be described as a sort of Egyptian cross between Jonathan Swift and Manuel Puig".

His novels are typically told in the first person, in a cold objective tone resembling press reportage which mimics reality.

His main theme seems to be the importance of resisting the influence of the political mega-powers which attempt to invade the third world economically through many ways including the transcontinental companies.

As an example, "Sharaf" [=Honour] deals with the intrusion of American politics in Egypt and includes long passages frankly criticising the big drug companies and their policies in third world countries.

His interests are not limited to the situation in Egypt; "Beirut..Beirut" is something like an overview of the Lebanese civil war of the '70s and '80s, and "Warda" reveals a little-known episode about the activities of leftists and communists in Yemen and Oman in the '60s and '70s.

The title of one of his latest novels is "Amricanly" which superficially means " American" or "in an American way" but is really a parody of another word "Othmanly" related to the notorious Dark Ages when Turkey ruled Egypt.

The word "Amricanly" in another way is almost a transliteration of the phrase "My affairs were mine" in Arabic.

His novel, "The Committee" is often described by critics as kafkaesque.

In it the protagonist seeks entry into a shadowy organization.

He is routinely subject to their vetting process and Sonallah uses his character to make numerous political observations in the form of speeches to the committee.

Several of Ibrahim's works also explore how repetition and fastidious attention to detail can be used to examine the themes of childhood innocence, boredom, and sexual frustration.

In Stealth, the narrator recounts his childhood memories living with his father in a small, modest apartment.

By describing each part of a mundane action, such as hanging up a coat or cooking some eggs, the narrator conveys his childhood curiosity and naivete about the adult world around him.

In Ice, extensive repetition of intimate acts, with the same atomistic attention to detail, indicates the narrator's boredom and frustration with life as a foreign student in Soviet Russia.

As a translator

2003

In harmony with his political ideas, in 2003 he refused to accept a prestigious literary award worth £E100,000 from Egypt's Ministry of Culture.