Yasser Abd el-Hafez
was born in Cairo in 1969. He graduated in Law from Ain Shams University. He started work as a journalist when he was 18, and worked with Akhbar al-Adab since it started. On the Occasion of Life is his first novel.
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Banipal No 25 Spring 2006
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