| Ezzat el Kamhawi | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 23, 1961 Sharqia Governorate, Egypt |
| Occupation | Novelist - journalist |
| Notable work(s) | The City of Pleasure, The Grove of Sadness and Bliss, A room overlooking the Nile, The Guard, Beit Al-Deeb |
Ezzat el Kamhawi Arabic: عزت القمحاوي is a novelist and a journalist. He is the Senior Editor of al-Doha Cultural Magazine, a monthly magazine dedicated to literature and cultural issues in the Arab World.
He was born in 1961 and graduated from the department of journalism in the Faculty of Mass Communications, Cairo University in 1983.
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elKamhawi was born on 23 December 1961 in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt, before graduating from thanawya amma (equivalent to high school) he had articles published for him on Al Gomhuria newspaper.
after graduating from the department of journalism in the Faculty of Mass Communications, Cairo University, he started working for Al-Akhbar, where he helped establish Akhbar Al-Adab 10 years later, a widely known literature magazine, now he is the Senior Editor of al-Doha Cultural Magazine.[1]
he writes weekly for al Akhbar, Almasry Alyoum, and Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
His published literary works include:
A city like no other, guarded by the goddess of pleasure and, ruled by a licentious king who dedicated his time to carnal pleasures and a princess who dreams of love and tender empathy. The priests decide to design the walls of the princess's room with figures of embracing lovers and burnt incense and chanted their magical incantations that the pictures on the wall may come to life and the dream of the princess for true love might come true.
People real and shadowy, strong slaves and emperors have met their doom at the gates of the City of Pleasure. Eventually the gates of the impenetrable city succumbs under the charm of two ingenious commodities: fried potatoes and pepsi-cola. No one knows the real history of the City of Pleasure and no welcome visitor has ever escaped its enchantment.
This is the novel that has been structured from human myths melted down and recreated one of the most perfectly executed literary whims. It is no longer possible to speak of modern Arabic literary narrative without including The City of Pleasure and the enriching addition it has provided to the art of the modern Arabic novel par excellence.