(1931–2023)

One of the pioneers of children’s literature in Egypt and the Arab world. He wrote a daily children’s column in Al-Ahram newspaper starting in 1981. He received the Best Children’s Writer Award from the Supreme Council of Culture in 1998, and the Suzanne Mubarak Award for authoring the book "The Most Beautiful Folk Tales" in 2002—the same book for which Dar El Shorouk won the New Horizons Award at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2002. More than 300 children’s books were published under his name.