Ahmed Khaled Towfik

Sinéad Murphy (King's College London)

Ed. by Anna Bernard, King's College London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.1.1: North African Writing and Culture: Arabic, Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Lia Brozgal (University of California, Los Angeles), Helen Rachel Cousins (Birmingham Newman University), Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Dalia Mostafa (University of Manchester), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University)

Dates

Born Jun 1962
Activity 1993-ongoing

Places

Born in Egypt
Active in Egypt

Genres and Modes

Horror
Science Fiction/ Speculative
Thriller/ Noir
Utopian / Dystopian

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Poet

Resources

Tawfik's Works

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Arab literary culture is steeped in a long-standing history of the fantastic; the upsurge in Arabic-speaking countries in the production of speculative and science fiction, however, is a decidedly more recent phenomenon. While a plethora of academics concur with Vahid Behmadi’s claim that “forms of the genre known in academia as proto-Sci-Fi have been present in the [sic] Arab culture since the middle ages” (qtd. in Mucci,

LA Review of Books

), writers and critics are now turning their attention to the many contemporary Arab authors engaging with themes and tropes of science fiction, fantasy, and surrealism. Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s prolific publishing career both precedes this contemporary rise of Arab science fiction and is a critical component of it. Having begun publishing…

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Citation: Murphy, Sinéad. "Ahmed Khaled Towfik". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 July 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13666, accessed 31 October 2024.]

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