| Hamdy el-Gazzar was born in 1970 in Giza, Cairo, and graduated in philosophy from Cairo University. Since 1990 he has published several short stories and articles in the Arabic press, as well as writing and directing three plays. He is presently director of the research department of the Culture TV channel in Cairo. Black Magic, his debut novel, was awarded the Sawiris Foundation Prize in Egyptian Literature in 2006.
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