Sonallah Ibrahim

Born in Cairo in 1937, Sonallah Ibrahim studied law at Cairo University and was imprisoned in 1959 for his political activities. After his release he spent several years abroad and returned in 1974 to Cairo, where he has lived ever since. In 2004 he was awarded — and pointedly declined — the Egyptian government’s prestigious Novelist of the Year prize.

Sonallah Ibrahim

Books by Sonallah Ibrahim

That Smell and Notes from Prison
Sonallah Ibrahim, Robyn Creswell
Paperback, 2013
That Smell is Sonallah Ibrahim’s modernist masterpiece and one of the most influential Arabic novels. Composed in the wake of a five-year prison sentence, the semi-autobiographical story follows a...
Stealth
Sonallah Ibrahim, Hosam Aboul-Ela
Paperback, 2014
A young son wanders Cairo trying to comprehend why his mother has disappeared
That Smell and Notes from Prison
Sonallah Ibrahim, Robyn Creswell
E Book, 2013
That Smell is Sonallah Ibrahim’s modernist masterpiece and one of the most influential Arabic novels. Composed in the wake of a five-year prison sentence, the semi-autobiographical story follows a...
Stealth
Sonallah Ibrahim, Hosam Aboul-Ela
E Book, 2014
A young son wanders Cairo trying to comprehend why his mother has disappeared

Sonallah Ibrahim

Books by Sonallah Ibrahim

That Smell and Notes from Prison

Stealth

That Smell and Notes from Prison

Stealth