Muhammad Aladdin
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Muhammad Aladdin, also known as Alaa Eddin (Arabic:محمـد علاء الديـن) is an Egyptian
novel
ist, short story
writer, and script writer
. Aladdin has gained acclamation for his first novel published The Gospel According to Adam
(Arabic:إنجيل آدم) in January 2006. The work has been hailed by writers like Bahaa Taher
and Sonallah Ibrahim
to be among the best of a promising new crop. That novel breaks the conventional format of the novel, consisting as it does of a single 60-page-long paragraph that is written in a stream of consciousness style. A reviewer for Al-Ahram
's literary page on May 10, 2006 stated that The Gospel According to Adam reflects “a social reality that has lost all certainties".
he was chosen as one of the most important Egyptian writers in the new millennium by the Egyptian magazine Akhbar Al-Adab in 2011, and he's one of Six Egyptian writers you don't know but you should as the writer Pauls Toutonghi
said in The millions.com.
Egyptians
Egyptians are nation an ethnic group made up of Mediterranean North Africans, the indigenous people of Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
ist, short story
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
writer, and script writer
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
. Aladdin has gained acclamation for his first novel published The Gospel According to Adam
The Gospel According to Adam
The Gospel According To Adam is a 2006 novel by Muhammad Aladdin, and has been published by in Egypt. It is his first novel followed by The Twenty-Second Day in 2007.-Plot introduction:...
(Arabic:إنجيل آدم) in January 2006. The work has been hailed by writers like Bahaa Taher
Bahaa Taher
Bahaa Taher , sometimes transliterated as Bahaa Tahir, Baha Taher, or Baha Tahir, is an Egyptian novelist who writes in Arabic. He was awarded the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2008.-Life:...
and Sonallah Ibrahim
Sonallah Ibrahim
Son'allah Ibrahim is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer and one of the "Sixties Generation" who is known for his leftist and nationalist views which are expressed rather directly in his work...
to be among the best of a promising new crop. That novel breaks the conventional format of the novel, consisting as it does of a single 60-page-long paragraph that is written in a stream of consciousness style. A reviewer for Al-Ahram
Al-Ahram
Al-Ahram , founded in 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya . It is majority owned by the Egyptian government....
's literary page on May 10, 2006 stated that The Gospel According to Adam reflects “a social reality that has lost all certainties".
he was chosen as one of the most important Egyptian writers in the new millennium by the Egyptian magazine Akhbar Al-Adab in 2011, and he's one of Six Egyptian writers you don't know but you should as the writer Pauls Toutonghi
Pauls Toutonghi
Pauls Toutonghi was born in America to immigrant parents. Pauls mother emigrated from Latvia while his father emigrated from Egypt. He is a first generation American who is fluent in Latvian. Pauls is an American novelist, his first novel being Red Weather; a political satire about immigration from...
said in The millions.com.
Writings
- Aladdin's literary career began in 2000, when he co-wrote the comic, youth-oriented series Maganin (Mad People), published by Al Mobdeoun publishing house. It was his first encounter with his co-author, prominent Egyptian novelist Ahmad AlaidyAhmed AlaidyAhmed Alaidy, أحمد العايدي , is an Egyptian novelist, born on December 24, 1974. He is the author of the novel Being Abbas El Abd , , أن تكون عباس العبد . He studied marketing at Cairo University, and has worked as a scriptwriter on quiz shows and for the cinema, and as a writer of satirical...
, establishing a strong friendship lasted till now. The series have stopped in 2002 after 10 issues, some of which reached 20,000 copies in EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
and the Arab worldArab worldThe Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the...
. In 2001 he started writing on cinema and light-content essays for 5 issues of another series called Ice Cream from the same publishing house and in 2002 he wrote another series called Comicia for Dar Al Hussam; this lasted for 4 issues. - In 2002 he was one of two writers to participate in an internationally funded workshop on comic-book creation. The result was the tri-lingual ArabicArabic languageArabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
, EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, and FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
. comic album The Adventures of Prince Seif Ibn Zi YazanSayf ibn Dhi YazanSayf ibn dhī-Yazan was a Yemeni Himyarite king who lived between 516 and 574 CE, known for ending Aksumite rule over Southern Arabia...
(CairoCairoCairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
, Ahamd El Attar, nd 2004). - In 2003 he published his first conventionally literary book, Al Daffa Al Ukhra (The Other Bank), a volume of short stories published by The General Organization for Cultural Palaces, an organ of EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
's ministry of culture. the book was well received by readers and other writers alike. - In 2004, Aladdin won The General Organization for Cultural Palaces' prize (3rd rank) in its pan-Egyptian central contest, for his unpublished first novel Al Dawa’ir (The Circles). In the same year excerpts from his second novel (was unpublished back then) The Twenty-Second DayThe Twenty-Second DayThe Twenty-Second Day is a 2007 novel by Muhammad Aladdin, and has been published by Publishing House in Egypt.-Plot introduction:A young man, a pianist who hates piano, goes into a stormy relationship with a divorced woman who's older than he is for ten years...
(Arabic: اليوم الثاني و العشرون) appeared in the prestigious literary magazine Akhbar al-Adab, then to be published in the Egyptian El-'Ain Publishing House in 2007. - in 2008, he had 2 new books published, The Idole (Arabic: الصنم), a novel from El-'Ain publishing, and The Secret Life of Citizen M (Arabic: الحياة السرية للمواطن م), a short-stories collection, from Mezan publishing house. He had the second printing of The Gospel Accourding to Adam released from Mezan too.
- In 2005, he began writing comics for the Saudi children's magazine Basem.
- In October 2009, his story New Lover, Young Lover was published in the American Public Space in its Cairo portfolio, it was translated by Humphrey T. DaviesHumphrey T. DaviesHumphrey T. Davies is a leading translator of Arabic literature into the English language and twice winner of the Banipal Prize. He studied Arabic at Cambridge University, obtaining a first class degree, and pursued further studies at the American University in Cairo and at the University of...
(The Yacoubian BuildingThe Yacoubian BuildingThe Yacoubian Building is a novel by Egyptian author Alaa-Al-Aswany. The book was made into a film of the same name in 2006 and into a TV series in 2007....
, Gate of the Sun (Novel)), and was first published in Arabic in November 2009 by the Egyptian Supreme Council for Culture in a special anthology titled "The Best Egyptian Short Stories.
Other works
- He participated in The Arab Short stories Conference, and The Arab Novel Conference, both held 2008 and 2009 respectively, and organized by The Supreme Council for Culture-Egypt.
- In 2010 he gave a lecture about his works in the Edinburgh University's Middle Eastern Society.
- Aladdin has held a creative writing workshop for children of AlexandriaAlexandriaAlexandria is the second-largest city of Egypt, with a population of 4.1 million, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country; it is also the largest city lying directly on the Mediterranean coast. It is Egypt's largest seaport, serving...
upon the request of Bibliotheca AlexandrinaBibliotheca AlexandrinaThe Bibliotheca Alexandrina or Maktabat al-Iskandarīyah is a major library and cultural center located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the Egyptian city of Alexandria...
in 2004. - Lectured on creative writing in International Labour OrganizationInternational Labour OrganizationThe International Labour Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that deals with labour issues pertaining to international labour standards. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. Its secretariat — the people who are employed by it throughout the world — is known as the...
's (ILO) International Programme on the Elimination of Child LabourInternational Programme on the Elimination of Child LabourThe International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour is a programme that the International Labour Organization has run since 1992...
(IPEC) Scream program . in CairoCairoCairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
, 2005. - Participated, as a preteen, in the 1993 United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
Vienna World Conference on Human RightsWorld Conference on Human RightsThe World Conference on Human Rights was held by the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, on 14 to 25 June 1993. It was the first human rights conference held since the end of the Cold War...
. He was a member of the Arab Youth Delegation organized by The Arab Council for Childhood and Development ACCD. - He was a member of youth advisory meeting for the fourth Arab Human Development Report AHDR by the UNDP in 2004.
- As of 2005, he has worked as a freelance script writer.