Many intellectuals gathered to the Omar Makram Mosque in Tahrir Square to pay their respects to the famous author Bahaa Taher, who passed away last Thursday evening at the age of 87.
Among the intellectuals who attended to offer condolences is the great writer Ibrahim Abdel Majid, Yahya Qalash, the captain of the former journalists, the writer Basma Abdel Aziz, the writer and journalist Jamal Fahmy, the journalist writer Muhammad Shair, the poet Saeed Shehata, the writer Abdullah Al -Sanawi, and Anwar Mughaith.
The former Minister of Culture, Dr. Helmy Al-Namnim, a journalist and author, and Dr.
Sahar Al-Muji, who was buried in the family tombs on the oasis route with the assistance of a number of intellectuals and artists, attended the great writer’s burial last Friday from the police mosque in Sheikh Zayed.
Bahaa Taher was born on January 13, 1935, in the Giza Governorate. From 1956 to 1957, he worked as a translator for the State Information Service, and from then until 1975, when he was forbidden from writing, he served as a drama director and broadcaster for the second programme radio, which was one of his founding stations. He left Egypt and went in Africa and Asia, where he worked as a translator, after being prevented from writing.
He lived in Geneva between 1981 and 1995, where he worked as a translator at the United Nations, then he returned to Egypt, where he lives until now.
My Aunt Safia, The Monastery, and The Sunset Oasis are among of Bahaa Taher’s best-known books.
The Omar Makram Mosque is where the intelligentsia congregate to express their sorrow in Bahaa Taher.
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