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Abdel Rahman al-Sharqawi was born in the province of Menoufia in 1920. After university he spent a year in Paris. He started writing poetry but then turned to the novel. His first novel, الأرض (Egyptian Earth), is one of the most successful Egyptian novels and was made into film.
Abdul Rahman Al-Sharqawi was influenced by rural life and the Egyptian village was the source of his inspiration, and this was reflected in his first novel, The Earth, which is the first realistic embodiment in modern Arab literary creativity, and this novel was turned into a famous film of the same name directed by Youssef Chahine in 1970.
Abdel Rahman al-Sharqawi (1920–1987) was a highly acclaimed writer and a pioneer of the innovative movement in Arabic poetry. Born into a peasant family in the Egyptian province of Menoufia, al-Sharqawi’s first works were published while he was a student at the University of Cairo.
Abdel Rahman al-Sharqawi: الأرض (Egyptian Earth) This novel is set in a small village in Egypt in the 1930s during the British occupation of Egypt. A repressive monarchy has been restored, parliament has been dissolved and the Constitution suspended.
Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi (1921–1987) was an Egyptian writer. Books and studies about him. Confessions of Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi, Mustafa Abd al-Ghani, The Supreme Council of Culture, Cairo, 1996; Al-Sharqawi, a rebel, Mustafa Abdel-Ghani, Dar Al-Taawon, Cairo, 1987. References
Abdel-Rahman AL-Sharqawi was a leading multi-talented intellectual. During the late forties, he was one of the leading pioneers of the innovative movement in Arabic poetry, as well as a major exponent of the social realistic trend in literary criticism.
May 20, 2016 · This Friday’s movie is the 1970 film Al-Ard, directed by Youssef Chahine, based on a 1954 novel by Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi (1920-1987). I was translated into English as Egyptian Earth (1962) by Desmond Stewart. Sharkawi graduated from law school in 1943, in the midst of World War II.
