Muhammad Aladdin
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| Born: | October 7, 1979 Bab El Louk, Cairo, Egypt |
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| Occupation(s): | novelist, freelance script writer |
| Literary movement: | Postmodern |
Muhammad Aladdin, also known as Alaa Eddin (Arabic:محمـد علاء الديـن) is an Egyptian novelist, short story writer, and script writer. Aladdin has gained acclamation for his first novel published The Gospel According to Adam (Arabic:إنجيل آدم) in January 2006. The work has been hailed by writers like Baha Tahir and Sonallah Ibrahim to be among the best of a promising new crop. That novel breaks the conventional format of the novel, consisting as it does of a single 60-page-long paragraph that is written in a stream of consciousness style. A reviewer for Al-Ahram’s literary page on May 10, 2006 stated that The Gospel According to Adam reflects “a social reality that has lost all certainties".
[edit] Writings
- Aladdin’s literary career began in 2000, when he co-wrote the comic, youth-oriented series Maganin (Mad People), published by Al Mobdeoun publishing house. It was his first encounter with his co-author, prominent Egyptian novelist Ahmad Al Aidy , establishing a strong friendship lasted till now. The series have stopped in 2002 after 10 issues, some of which reached 20,000 copies in Egypt and the Arab world. In 2001 he started writing on cinema and light-content essays for 5 issues of another series called Ice Cream from the same publishing house and in 2002 he wrote another series called Comicia for Dar Al Hussam; this lasted for 4 issues.
- In 2002 he was one of two writers to participate in an internationally funded workshop on comic-book creation. The result was the tri-lingual Arabic, English, and French. comic album The Adventures of Prince Seif Ibn Zi Yazan (Cairo, Ahamd El Attar, nd 2004).
- In 2003 he published his first conventionally literary book, Al Daffa Al Ukhra (The Other Bank), a volume of short stories published by The General Organization for Cultural Palaces, an organ of Egypt’s ministry of culture. the book was well received by readers and other writers alike.
- In 2004, Aladdin won The General Organization for Cultural Palaces' prize (3rd rank) in its pan-Egyptian central contest, for his unpublished first novel Al Dawa’ir (The Circles). In the same year excerpts from his second, also unpublished, novel Al Yawm Al Thani Wal 'Ishrun (The Twenty-Second Day) appeared in the prestigious literary magazine Akhbar al-Adab.
- In 2005, he begun writing comics for the Saudi chidlren’s magazine Basem.
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[edit] Other Works
- Aladdin has held a creative writing workshop for children of Alexandria upon the request of Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 2004.
- Lectured on creative writing in International Labour Organization's (ILO) International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) Scream program . in Cairo, 2005.
- Participated, as a preteen, in the 1993 United Nations Vienna Human Rights Conference. He was a member of the Arab Youth Delegation organized by The Arab Council for Childhood and Development ACCD.
- As of 2005, he has worked as a freelance script writer.
