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Bahaa Taher was born on 13 January, 1935 in Giza, Egypt, is an Egyptian novelist (1935–2022). Discover Bahaa Taher'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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27 October, 2022 |
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Bahaa Taher Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Bahaa Taher worth at the age of 87 years old? Bahaa Taher’s income source is mostly from being a successful novelist. He is from Egypt. We have estimated Bahaa Taher's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Bahaa Taher (بهاء طاهر; 13 January 1935 – 27 October 2022), sometimes transliterated as Bahaa Tahir, Baha Taher, or Baha Tahir, was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer who wrote in Arabic.
Taher was born in Giza Governorate on 13 January 1935, with roots from Luxor in Upper Egypt.
He had a bachelor's degree in history, literature faculty in 1956, then a postgraduate diploma in media from the University of Cairo in 1973.
He was one of the Egyptian artists who contributed to the avant-garde literary magazine Galerie 68.
Upon being banned from writing in 1975, he left Egypt and travelled widely in Africa and Asia seeking work as a translator.
During the 1980s and 1990s he lived in Switzerland, where he worked as a translator for the United Nations.
Afterwards he returned to Egypt, where he continued to reside.
Taher died on 27 October 2022, at the age of 87.
(الحب في المنفى) His fourth novel deals with the massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982.
(شرق النخيل) His first novel was published in serialized form.
Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery (1991)
(خالتي صفية والدير) His third novel, set in Upper Egypt, concerns a blood feud as a result of which a young Muslim man, fleeing vengeance, finds sanctuary in a Coptic monastery.
The Point of Light (2001)
He was awarded the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2008.
(واحة الغروب) His sixth novel is set in 19th century Egypt at the beginning of the British occupation of the country.
The protagonist of the book is a nationalist Egyptian police officer who suffers from an existential crisis.
In his youth he was involved in left wing causes, and was a supporter of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s development program for Egypt.
He felt that Anwar El Sadat’s ending of this policy has been a disaster for Egypt.
He called himself a pan-Arabist, but he said that he did not see much good in the Arab regimes of today.
He felt that Westerners want to see exoticism, gender discrimination, and problems between minorities in the works of Arab writers, but he refused to comply with these stereotypes.