Yasser Abdel Hafez is an Egypt

Egypt

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ian novelist and journalist

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. He was born in Cairo

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 and studied law at Ain Shams University

Ain Shams University

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. He has worked as a journalist for the Arabic-language literary journal Akhbar al-Adab

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 for more than 20 years. Abdel Hafez's most notable work is his novel On the Occasion of Life, published in 2005. Excerpts from this novel have been translated into English and were published in Banipal

Banipal

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 magazine in 2006, in an issue devoted to new writing in Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

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