Karim Alrawi
Autor de The Girl Who Lost Her Smile
Obras de Karim Alrawi
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1952
- Género
- male
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Alexandria, Egypt
- Lugares de residencia
- Alexandria, Egypt
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
London, England, UK - Educación
- University College London
University of Manchester
University of British Columbia (MFA|Creative Writing - Ocupaciones
- playwright
writer - Biografía breve
- Karim Alrawi (Arabic كريم الراوي) is a writer born in Alexandria, Egypt. His family emigrated to England then to Canada. Alrawi graduated from University College London and the University of Manchester, England. He gained an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa. He moved to Egypt, where he taught in the theatre department of the American University in Cairo. In Egypt his plays were banned by the state censor. He was arrested and detained for interrogation by Egyptian State Security about his writings and for his work with the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR).Alrawi supervised media and conflict resolution training projects in Nepal and in South-East Asia and projects to support women-managed community radio stations and a newspaper in Afghanistan, as well as media training and peacebuilding projects in North Africa and the Middle East including Iraq. He gave testimony before the US Congress on Human Rights in the Middle East and was a member of the Canadian delegation led by Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conference on Good Governance in the Arab World, as well as a member of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Programme on Governance in the Arab Region (POGAR, 1999–2005).
In January 2011, Alrawi returned to Egypt to join the uprising against the Mubarak dictatorship.He participated in civil disobedience actions against the regime and after the fall of the Mubarak dictatorship worked with the EOHR to prepare files on corruption by former officials and politicians for submission to the new state prosecutors office.He currently divides his time between the North America and Egypt.
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- Popularidad
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- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 11