Egypt
- Gamal Al-Ghitani
- Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city.
- Alifa Rifaat
- Ahdaf Soueif
- Sonallah Ibrahim (born 1937)
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Famous quotes containing the word egypt:
“New York, you are an Egypt! But an Egypt turned inside out. For she erected pyramids of slavery to death, and you erect pyramids of democracy with the vertical organ-pipes of your skyscrapers all meeting at the point of infinity of liberty!”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)
“It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,
Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,”
—Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)