Ahmed Ibrahim al-Fagih (Arabic: أحمد إبراهيم الفقيه ’áħmad 'Ibrāhīm al-faqīh) (December 28, 1942 – April 30, 2019) was a Libyan novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist and diplomat.[1][2] He began writing short stories at an early age publishing them in Libyan newspapers and magazines. He gained recognition in 1965 when his first collection of short stories There Is No Water in the Sea (Arabic: البحر لا ماء فيه) won him the highest award sponsored by the Royal Commission of Fine Arts in Libya.[3] Fagih wrote many more books in different genres,[4] including short stories, novels, plays, essays, among them Gazelles (play), Evening Visitor (play), Gardens of the Night Trilogy (novels), The Valley of Ashes (novel), and his 12-volume epic novel Maps of the Soul, which had its first three volumes translated into English and published by DARF Publishers in UK in 2014.[5]
Fagih held several diplomatic posts representing Libya, in London, Athens, Bucharest and Cairo. He lived and worked between Cairo and Tripoli.[4]
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Ahmed Ibrahim al-Fagih (Arabic: أحمد إبراهيم الفقيه ’áħmad 'Ibrāhīm al-faqīh) (December 28, 1942 – April 30, 2019) was a Libyan novelist, playwright, essayist...
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published an expanded edition in 2015 with a foreword by Libyan novelist Ahmed Ibrahim Fagih.” Chorin’s second book, Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the...
Bushnaf, African Titanics by Abu Bakr Khaal and Maps of the Soul by AhmedFagih. Darf have also published the first English translation of Confines of...
established between the hero and a young member of the occupier. Ashraf Fagih wrote on the "Al-Qafila magazine" website:” Sonallah Ibrahim evokes in his...
Culture in the Pre-Modern World. Springer. pp. 77–105. ISBN 9780230604292. Fagih, Ahmed (2008). The Libyan Short Story: A Research and Anthology. Xlibris Corporation...
and to the community in Winchester, Hampshire Honorary Walid Mohmed Al Fagih, For services to the British Embassy, Tripoli Farouk Al Najah, For services...
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