Zain Abdul Hady

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Zain Abdul Hady
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Dr. Zain Abdul Hady
BornZain al-Din Muhammad Abdul Hady
(1956-12-01) 1 December 1956 (age 66)
Monufia, Egypt
OccupationNovelist, and writer
NationalityEgyptian
Genre Magic Realism

Zain al-Din Muhammad Abdul Hady (Arabic : زين الدين محمد عبد الهادي) (born 1 December 1956) is an Egyptian researcher, novelist and writer.

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Life

His mother Zainab was the only daughter of a fisherman from Port Said. His father worked for Al Ahram newspaper in Cairo from 1969 to 1993. Zain is the eldest of six brothers.

In 1979, Abdul Hady obtained his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) from the Department of Libraries and Information Science, the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University, with general mention very good. In 1995, he obtained his masters from the same department in the field of information science, the thesis of his master was titled Expert systems for reference services in IDSC Library. In 1998, he obtained his PhD degree in the field of information science; the thesis was titled The online databases industry in Egypt.

Dr. Abdul Hady holds the academic rank of Professor, and he chaired as Head of the Department of Libraries and Information science in the Faculty of Arts, Helwan University, in Cairo. [1] He also held the post of the Information and System Development Consultant at the Arab Administrative Development Organization from 2005 until October 2008, and between May 2011 and May 2012 worked as Chairman of public authority of the Egyptian National Library and Archives.

Works

Scientific publications

Fiction

Novels
Short Stories

From 1986 until the present time, Dr. Abdul Hady has published around 35 short stories in Egyptian literary magazines and Arabic newspapers.

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References

  1. "The Future of Dar al-Kotob: Q&A with Zain Abdul Hady". Al-Masry Al-Youm. 23 June 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2011.