WRITER

Gamal El-Ghitani

1945 - 2015

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Gamal al-Ghitani (Arabic: جمال الغيطانى, IPA: [ɡæˈmæːl el ɣeˈtˤɑːni]; 9 May 1945 – 18 October 2015) was an Egyptian author of historical and political novels and cultural and political commentaries and was the editor-in-chief of the literary periodical Akhbar Al-Adab ("Cultural News") till 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gamal El-Ghitani has received more than 33,936 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gamal El-Ghitani is the 4,538th most popular writer (up from 4,857th in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 474th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Egyptian Writer.

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  • 19

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gamal El-Ghitani ranks 4,538 out of 7,302. Before him are Gyula Illyés, Jens Bjørneboe, Juan Montalvo, M. Ageyev, Alexander Bek, and Georges Courteline. After him are Jovan Rajić, Eliška Krásnohorská, Russell Kirk, Źmitrok Biadula, Wilhelm Geiger, and Mihály Csokonai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Gamal El-Ghitani ranks 387. Before him are Mario Livio, Katri Helena, Marielle Goitschel, Sadakazu Tanigaki, Julio Morales, and Filoimea Telito. After him are Davy Jones, Iccho Itoh, Ralph Siegel, Alcindo, Roland Moreno, and Hugo Fernández. Among people deceased in 2015, Gamal El-Ghitani ranks 276. Before him are Jack Goody, Patricia Crone, Yossi Sarid, Ivan Davidov, Stephan Beckenbauer, and William Wakefield Baum. After him are Kayahan, Joseph Engelberger, Jayakanthan, Peter de Klerk, Leo Kadanoff, and Milorad Milutinović.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Gamal El-Ghitani ranks 485 out of 642. Before him are Inji Aflatoun (1924), Michel Pablo (1911), Al-Wathiq I (null), Pope Timothy I of Alexandria (350), Ahmed Hassan (1975), and Al-Hakim II (null). After him are Pope Justus of Alexandria (100), Theognostus of Alexandria (210), Mahmoud Fayad (1925), Nadia Gamal (1937), Roland Moreno (1945), and Khenemetneferhedjet I (-1950).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Gamal El-Ghitani ranks 52. Before him are Yusuf Idris (1927), Alaa Al Aswany (1957), Aisha Taymur (1840), Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889), Andrée Chedid (1920), and Penelope Delta (1874). After him are Latifa al-Zayyat (1923), Mahmud Taymur (1894), Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (1892), Bahaa Taher (1935), Magdi Allam (1952), and Karim Rashid (1960).

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