Abdel Wahab El Messiri

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Abdel Wahab El Messiri is an Egyptian writer and philosopher.

El Messiri graduated from Alexandria Arts college,department of English 1959. He is considered one of Egypt's most famous thinkers. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at Ain Shams University. Jews, Judasim, and zionism is one of his most important researches. His idea was changed from being secular western ideas to islamic ideas. El-Misiri has written several articles about his ideas, including "Chosen Community, an Exceptional Burden", "A People Like Any other". He has also written for children.[1]

[edit] His works in English

A Lover from Palestine and Other Poems (Palestine Information Office, Washington D.C., 1972)
Israel and South Africa: The Progression of a Relationship (North American, New Brunswick, N.J., 1976; second edition 1977; third edition, 1980; Arabic translation, 1980)
The Land of Promise: A Critique of Political Zionism (North American, New Brunswick, N.J., 1977)
Three Studies in English Literature (North American, New Brunswick, N.J., 1979)
The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry [editor] (Three Continents Press, Washington D.C., 1983)
A Land of Stone and Thyme: Palestinian Short Stories [co-editor] (Quartet, London, 1996)