Ahmed Khaled Tawfik | Ahmed Khaled Tawfik's 57th Birthday

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Ahmed Khaled Tawfik's 57th Birthday
Ahmed Khaled Tawfik
Ahmed Khaled Tawfik’s 57th Birthday
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Ahmed Khaled Tawfik
Ahmed Khaled Tawfik's 57th Birthday

"My English was not good enough to read horror literature, so I started writing it myself,” said Egyptian doctor and author Ahmed Khaled Tawfik.
Today’s Doodle celebrates the life and work of the first and most prolific Arab writer of horror and science fiction, born in Tanta, Egypt, on this day in 1962.
Growing up in a house full of books, he read works by Somerset Maugham, Mark Twain, Chekhov, and Tolstoy from his father’s extensive library.
By the age of 10, Dr.
Tawfik began writing his own adventure stories.
"You write to keep your mental stability," he said in an interview.
However, making a living as a writer did not seem practical to Dr.
Instead, he attended medical school, and later earned a PhD in tropical diseases and became a professor at his alma mater.
After writing secretly for many years, he accumulated a trove of manuscripts.
"Every writer has close friends who tell him he is a genius, but I did not trust them,” he said, but eventually decided to send his work to a publisher.
In January 1993, he published Ostorat Masas Al Demaa’a and Ostorat Al Rajol Al Tha’eb, the first of 80 installments in his Ma Waraa Al Tabiaa series of novels for young readers.
In addition to his duties at Tanta University, Dr.
Tawfik went on to author over 500 titles.
Tawfik continues to be remembered as one of the most prolific Arab writers of his age.
  Early sketches by artist Olivia Huynh.
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