Egyptian Writers Union honors Mahfouz Abdel Rahaman

CAIRO- 20 October 2017 : The Egyptian Writers Union headed by Alaa Abdelhady will organize a ceremony to honor the late great Writer Mahfouz Abdel Rahaman on Saturday, October 21 at Misr Public Library.

The ceremony will be attended by a group of prominent artists such as Mahfouz’s wife, the great actress Samira Abdelaziz, the renowned actress Samiha Ayoub, the Egyptian director Mohamed Fadel and the script writer Besheer el Deek among others.

Abdel Rahman was an art critic, drama writer, radio series writer and had his own school for creative writing. He employed in-depth research in his work, especially his historical series such as “Bawabet al- Halwani” (Halwani’s Gate), where he narrates in over one hundred and twenty episodes the digging of the Suez Canal.

He was the one that producers from all over the Arab world turned to when taking on a dramatizing historical event. He wrote the movie “Al Qadesya” about the conquest of Persia by the Islamic armies in the sixth century and “the Night Granada Fell,” about sending the Islamic forces out of Spain in the 14th century, to name a couple. His legacy is much more than that and each and every one of his works left a mark in TV drama, theatre and cinema.