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Hamza Mohammad Bogary or Boqari [1] (Arabic : حمزة محمد بوقري‎) (1932–1984) was an Arabic author from Mecca who also worked in broadcasting, becoming Director General of Broadcasting; from 1965 to 1967, he served as Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister of Information. [2] In 1967, he became a cofounder of King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. Of his writings, the best known outside of Arabia is his "lightly fictionalized memoir" Saqifat al-Safa (Arabic : سقيفة الصفا‎), translated into English as The Sheltered Quarter: "His descriptions of school and family life resemble closely what we know of a male student's rounds in eighteenth-century Mecca. The book is a Meccan bildungsroman, calling up those final days before the oil boom that transformed Saudi Arabia and the Hajj." [3]

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References

  1. ↑ King Abdulaziz University list of founders.
  2. ↑ Brief biography from The Sheltered Quarter.
  3. ↑ Michael Wolfe, One Thousand Roads to Mecca (Grove Press, 1999: ISBN   0-8021-3599-4), p. 441.


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