يوسف والرداء

Ibrahim Aslan was born in Gharbia Governorate, grew up and grew up in Cairo, specifically in the neighborhoods of Imbaba and Kit Kat. These two places have had the largest and most dominant presence in all of the writer’s works, starting with his first short story collection “Baherat Al-Massa” through his work and his most famous novel, “The Heron”, and even his book “Tales of Fadl.” Allah Othman” and his novel “The Birds of the Nile” and he used to live in Kit Kat until recently, then moved to Al-Warraq, but now he resides in Mokattam. In the early nineties, he joined as head of the literary department of the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper besides heading the editorship of one of the literary series in the General Authority for Cultural Palaces, but he resigned from it due to the uproar of the novel A Feast of Seaweed by the Syrian novelist Haider Haidar. The Heron novel achieved remarkable success at the mass and elite level and raised the name of Aslan high among an audience that was not accustomed to the name of the author of the novel due to the scarcity of his works on the one hand and his escape from media appearances on the other hand, until the Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed decided to turn the novel into a film under the title Kit Kat and indeed Aslan agreed to make some minor modifications to the novel while it was transferred to another medium, the cinema. Indeed, the film was shown and achieved great success for all who participated in it, and the film became one of the most prominent signs of Egyptian cinema in the nineties.