Ahmad Amran

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Ahmed Amran is a Yemeni writer. He has a PhD in mineral exploration and mining. In 2000, he published a short story collection titled A New Horizon for a Newer World. A story from that book ("A Poet and a Dancer") was translated into Italian, and included in a 2009 anthology of Yemeni literature called Perle dello Yemen. [1]

Amran lived in Hungary for many years.

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