Khaled Al Khamissi

Khaled al Khamissi ( born September 27, 1962 in Cairo, Egypt), and Khaled al - Khaled el- Khamissi or Khamissi, is an Egyptian writer and journalist.

Life

Al Khamissi studied political science at Cairo University and his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, he graduated with a Master of Arts in foreign policy from. He lives and works in Cairo as a journalist for Egyptian newspapers, among others for Al Ahram, and has has established itself as a critical observer of social relations a name. As a filmmaker, director and screenwriter, he also starred in many films and documentaries.

Al- Chamissis first literary work taxi became a bestseller in the home country and sold over 35,000 times. There are translations into English, French, Greek, Italian and Spanish and now the German and Polish ago. Since the beginning of the turn in Egypt in early 2011 he reported regularly in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper about the developments in his homeland.

Al Khamissi has three children living in Cairo, the university or high school attended in 2011.

Works

• English: taxi. Aflame Books, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-906300-02-9 German: In the taxi. Travelling in Cairo, Lenos Verlag, Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3-85787-413-0.

• German: Noah's Ark, Lenos Verlag, Basel, 2012, ISBN 978-3-85787-422-2.