The new issue of the monthly magazine “Book worldIt includes a file on the great writer Muhammad Hassanein Heikal; through it, the magazine reveals the unknown face of him, as he began as a writer, as “Akhir Sa’a” magazine published, on two pages, “A Story by a Writer.” Muhammad Hassanein Heikal“..titled The Mirage, this was Heikal’s first appearance in the Arab press ever, after a period he spent in the Egyptian Gazette.
In Rosal-Youssef, Heikal touched on a type of writing that he had not touched on afterward, through a fixed section in the magazine titled “I Will Never Forget”; In it, he talked about his first love for the neighbor’s girl, who had his heart beating for her for the first time and who taught him things and opened his eyes to things. When he went to work at the last hour, he wrote a topic entitled “The War in a Philosopher’s Silo” and it was a follow-up to a special visit to Lotfi Al-Sayyid’s library and an interview with him.
These secrets he reveals Shahdi Attia In an article entitled “The Writer,” Abeer Elhamy takes us to the professor’s library, which includes more than four thousand books, reviewing books of a literary nature, just as she wanders through the corridors of the Pyramids to see through the walls of the institution, which celebrates the paintings and murals of the great plastic artists in Egypt. Taher Abdel Rahman writes about the hidden face of Heikal, Sharif Saleh writes about the poetry of Heikal’s article, and there is also in the file an article by former Yemeni Minister of Culture Khaled Al-Ruwaishan about the facts of her hero. Heikal, and not many people know it, in addition to the introduction that the professor wrote specifically, to lead the collection “The Squares” by Abd al-Rahman al-Abnoudi.
Heikal is not the only hero of this issue. There is Hang Kang, the Korean novelist. We went to an unknown side of her literary personality, as Rasha Amer translated several of her poems, and the magazine did not fall captive to the phrase human fragility, the most deceptive sentence in describing literature.
There is also the American writer Kristin Hannah, whose vision of the American war on Vietnam is published, a war about which new aspects are revealed every day, and the American mind does not stop questioning it. And from Oslo, Ahmed Al-Sharif writes about a new illustrated book about the writer Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning novelist, He is accused of Nazism and insanity.
Mustafa Obada writes “Holocaust and Islamophobia.” The magazine publishes an interview with Wael Farouk on the occasion of the publication of his book “Fatwa in the Digital Age” in English. Rasha Obada is presented to the Abdel Halim Hafez Library. Dr. Hussein Mahmoud writes about Europe when it discovered Arab love. Tameran Mahmoud monitors the American censorship’s pursuit of ten Classic Books, Nashwa Ahmed writes about Ali Atta’s book Shadows of Narration, and Hanan Shafi’i writes about independent bookstores defying closure in… Streets of Britain.
World of the Book magazine is issued by the Egyptian General Book Authority, headed by Dr. Ahmed Bahi El-Din, and its editor-in-chief is the poet Azmi Abdel Wahab.
Muhammad Hassanein Heikal