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Khairy Shalaby
Khairy Shalaby (1938–2011) was an Egyptian novelist, short-story writer and critic best known for chronicling the everyday life of Cairo's streets and rural Egypt. Over a career of roughly 70 books, including some twenty novels, he became one of the leading voices of Egypt's 1960s generation of writers, mixing colloquial and classical Arabic and blending local history with the daily struggles of ordinary people. His novel وكالة عطية (published in English as The Lodging House) won the Naguib Mahf...