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كمال رُحيّمKamal Ruhayyim

1947 – 2023

An Egyptian novelist who wrote about the Jews of Cairo, the villages of Giza, and Port Said, and about the people he lived among.

Enter the worlds

I want something of my father to remain present among us, and for those who come after us to know him, even if they never had the chance to meet him.
Ahmed Kamal Ruhayyim

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In His Words

وهكذا بقينا أنا وأمي في الشقة. وكأن كل واحد منا بلا دين.
And so my mother and I stayed on in the flat, as if each of us were without a religion.

Diary of a Jewish Muslim

وراح البيت.. راح إلا أنه لا يزال مطبوعًا في قلبي مثلما كان، ولا يمر يوم إلا وأخال نفسي فيه..
And the house was gone. Gone, yet it is still stamped on my heart as it was, and not a day passes without my imagining myself inside it.

Unforgettable Days

وكنا نصل الليل بالنهار والموتى والجرحى بالمئات، كبار وصغار ورضع ورضيعات لا يعرفن من هذه الدنيا سوى حلمات الأمهات، وردم وغبار يملأ الجو ورائحة بارود..
We joined night to day, with the dead and wounded in their hundreds, old and young, nursing boys and girls who knew nothing of this world but their mothers' nipples, and rubble and dust filling the air, and the smell of gunpowder.

Port Said 68

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