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An Egyptian novelist who tends to the leftist thought and one of the controversial writers, especially after his refusal to receive the Arabic Novel Prize in 2003, which is granted by the Supreme Council of Culture. He was imprisoned for more than five years, from 1959 to 1964, in the context of a campaign launched by Gamal Abdel Nasser against the left. Sanalla Ibrahim's literary works are distinguished by their close relationship with his biography on the one hand, and with Egypt's political history on the other. One of Sanalla Ibrahim's most famous novels is "The Committee," which was published in 1981, and it is a satirical satire of the openness policy pursued during the Sadat era. Sanalla Ibrahim also portrayed the Lebanese civil war in his novel "Beirut Beirut" published in 1984. His novel, Sharaf, was chosen as the third best Arabic novel according to the classification of the Arab Writers Union, and Sanalla Ibrahim received the Ibn Rushd Prize for Free Thought in 2004. Among his works: His novels: The Committee is a Star August Beirut Beirut Honorable Rose Americanly Voyeur Turban and Hat French Law Ice His short stories: That Smell plus his autobiographical Memoir of an Oasis Prison. King Qaboos honored him for his novel Warda, which is a wonderful novel that tells about the Arab socialist revolutions, especially the attempt of the Omani Sultanate in the sixties through a group of Egyptian, Yemeni and Lebanese revolutionaries. The novel was accepted in the Egyptian, Lebanese and Gulf cultural circles. Sanalla Ibrahim is considered one of the greatest Egyptian novelists who are able to narrate and tell, and his style tends to be Marquess. However, Sanalla Ibrahim is older than Marquis as a writer, and the reader must put his full focus in his novels so that no threads of the novel escape him.