Yusuf al-Qa'id

Yusuf al-Qa'id ( يوسف القعيد born 1944) is an Egyptian novelist. He is best known in the West for War in the Land of Egypt (1978), first English edition in 2004 (transl. Olive Kenny, Lorne Kenny, Christopher Tingley), the basis for the 1991 film of the same name.

Yusuf al-Qa'id

Yusuf al-Qa'id ( يوسف القعيد born 1944) is an Egyptian novelist. He is best known in the West for War in the Land of Egypt (1978), first English edition in 2004 (transl. Olive Kenny, Lorne Kenny, Christopher Tingley), the basis for the 1991 film of the same name.