Muhammad Aladdin

Muhammad Aladdin
Born (1979-10-07) October 7, 1979
Bab El Louk, Cairo, Egypt
Occupation novelist, freelance script writer
Nationality Egypt Egyptian
Literary movement Postmodern

Muhammad Aladdin, also known as Alaa Eddin (Arabic:محمـد علاء الديـن) is an Egyptian novelist, short story writer, and script writer. His first collection of short stories was published in 2003, and he is the author of five novels—The Gospel According to Adam, The Twenty-Second Day, The Idol (novel), The Foot (novel), and A Well-Trained Stray—and four short story collections—The Other Shore (Short-stories collection), The Secret Life of Citizen M, Young Lover, New Lover, and The Season of Migration to Arkidea.

As one of his generation’s most noted writers in both Egypt and the Arab countries,[1][2] [3] and often described as "an innovator in the Arabic literature.[4] 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 Bahaa Taher and Sonallah Ibrahim to be among the best of a promising new crop.[5][6] 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".[7] In his book, "The Arab Novel and the Quest for Renovation" published by Dubi Althaqafia Magazine in May 2011, the famous Moroccan writer and critic Mohammed Berrada sites it as one of 5 novels has renovated the Arab novel.[8] The Egyptian writer Ibrahim Farghali wrote about it in the famous Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar that The Gospel According to Adam is "An experimental and substantial jump in narration style in the modern Egyptian novels".

He was chosen as one of the most important Egyptian writers in the new millennium by the Egyptian magazine Akhbar Al-Adab in 2011,[9] and one of the ‘’Six Egyptian writers you don’t know but you should’’ as the writer Pauls Toutonghi said in The millions.com.

In May 2013, Aladdin give a keynote speech in the name of the young Egyptian writers, in the First Convection for Egyptian Writers against the Muslim Brotherhood regime ruling Egypt back then, asserting on dissembling Egypt’s ministry of culture in order to establish a new republic. However, Aladdin spoke openly against the new regime in Egypt after 2013 Egyptian coup d'état and refused to participate in the Second conviction saying to ArabLit blog, in October 23, 2013 that ‘’They would use us as make-up for the same ugly face’’. As a consequence, he was banned from article writing in Egypt.[10][11][12][13]

Aladdin wrote for the MTV’s Rebel Music on Ramy Essam as ‘’The Revolution Singer’’ in November 2013.

Writings

Along with the American translation of the main title story, a Russian translation for one of the stories within it, The Voice (short story), was published by the Russian newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets in their Egypt edition, translated by Sarali Gintsburg. In March 2014, the same story was translated to Italian by Barbra Benini and published in Editoriaraba, a notable Italian blog dedicated to Arabic Literature,[15] in 24 hours it was reblogged on the blog MedShake on the ISPI website, an Italian prestigious research institute on international politics.[16]

- In January 2014, Aladdin has his fourth short stories collection, as three long story volume The Season of Migration to Arkidea by Merit publishing, The title story was translated into Dutch and Italian before actually published in book in Arabic.

Other works

8He participated in the Dutch famous festival Writers' Unlimited in 2015.

External links

References

  1. "Muhammad Aladdin: ‘The Central Problem Was — And Is — Book Distribution’". Arabic Literature (in English). 23 October 2013.
  2. "TAHRIR: ENDS OF CIRCULATION’". Public Culture. 20 July 2011.
  3. ": Aicha’s Twaalf: Muhammad Aladdin". Aicha Qandisha. 23 July 2015.
  4. "Muhammad Aladdin’". writersunlimited). 1 January 2015.
  5. "بـهــاء طــاهــر: أراهـن علـي شــباب الروائــيين!". Al Ahram. 13 May 2007.
  6. "..الكبير.. كبير". Writing is a Green Dragon with a Purple Moustache. 25 January 2008.
  7. "محمد علاء الدين : لا أسعى إلى الاختلاف ولكن إلى الابتكار". لوليتا. 10 May 2006.
  8. "'الرواية العربية ورهان التجديد’ لمحمد برادة: بحثا عن استقلال الثقافي عن السلطوي والايديولوجي". Arab48. 5 October 2011.
  9. "كتاب الألفية". Akhbar Al Adab. 25 December 2010.
  10. "Muhammad Aladdin: ‘الشروق تمنع محمد علاء من الكتابة’". masralarabia) (in Arabic). 19 November 2014.
  11. "منع محمد علاء الدين من الكتابة في "الشروق" مؤقتا ’". dotmasr. 18 November 2014.
  12. "Why Novelist Youssef Ziedan Quits Egypt ’". Arabic Literature (in English). 18 November 2014.
  13. "Aladdin' Journalism’". Muhammadaladdin. 18 November 2014.
  14. ""الساقية" تنظم حفلات توقيع لأهم إصدارات 2012’date=21 January 2013". Vetogate.
  15. "Muhammad Aladdin: "La scrittura è un drago verde con i baffi viola"date=24 March 2014". Editoriaraba.
  16. "La scrittura è un drago verde con i baffi viola Incontro con l’autore egiziano Muhammad Aladdin"date=25 March 2014". ISPI.
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