Wadih Palestine, an encyclopaedia writer with a wealth of literary works and translations that enhanced Egyptian and Arab literature, passed away today after a battle with the illness.
Wadih Palestine, a Sohag Governorate native who was born in Akhmim Center in 1923, earned a journalism degree from the American University in Cairo in 1942. He then worked in the political, economic, and literary press, starting out in the “excerpt” and “Al-Muqattam” newspapers between 1945 and 1952.
He taught at the American University in Cairo for ten years, from 1948 to 1957, and translated at least forty volumes on literature, economics, politics, and journalism. Wadih, Palestine. His 2003 book “Wadih Palestine talks about the flags of his time,” which was released in two parts, may be his most significant literary work. In it, he documents his interactions with about 100 flags in Egypt, Arab nations, immigrants, and orientalists.
He was credited as being the first to foresee Naguib Mahfouz’s rise to international recognition; in fact, Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988.
He participated in the direction of a number of encyclopedias, including the Egyptian Encyclopedia, and the “Encyclopedia of Copts” in the English language issued in eight parts by the University of Utah in the United States of America, “Encyclopedia of Egypt and the World”, and “Encyclopedia of Coptic Heritage”..
Wadih Palestine’s passing at the age of 99
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