Mohamed Abdelhalim Abdallah
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Mohamed Abdelhalim Abdallah born on February 3, 1913 in Beheira Governorate. He was a distinguished Egyptian writer. Most of his works have been adapted into films and television...Read more series, the most famous of which is the story Olive Branch, which was turned into a movie of the same name in 1962. He graduated from the Dar al-Ulum Higher School in 1937, and his first novel was published four years before his graduation in 1933. Upon graduating, he worked as an editor in the Academy of the Arabic Language magazine and remained there until he became editor-in-chief. He received many awards, the most important of which was the Republic Medal from President Anwar Sadat, which he received posthumously. His novel After Sunset was selected among the 100 best Arabic novels. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Writers' Association before his death on June 30, 1970, and a museum was set up for him next to his tomb in his village of Kafr Bolin.
