Mohamed al-Refai
Mohamed al-Refai is an Egyptian critic, novelist and writer.[1] Since 1980, he has been writing for the Egyptian magazine Sabah al-Khair. He has also written a number of books, radio plays, television series, and film scripts. Al-Refai's novel Nocturnal Creatures of Sadness was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2012.
Al-Refai lives and works in Cairo.
Selected works
Books
- Palestine in Egyptian Theatre
- Experiments in Arab Theatre
Radio plays
- A Journey in Olden Times
- Paradise Lost
- Papers of the Barada River
TV series
- The Overcoat (based on Nikolai Gogol's short story)
- The White (based on a novel by Yusef Idriss)
- The Extoller of the Moon (based on the life of the Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi)
Film scripts
- The Case of Mr. Mungid
- Stolen Dreams
References
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, March 14, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.