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Tawfiq al-Hakim Author

Tawfiq al-Hakim was born in Alexandria in 1898 and studied law in Paris before becoming the Arab world's leading dramatist as well as a major short-story writer and man of letters. He is the author of seventy plays, a number of novels and short stories, and an autobiography. Mona Radwan is assistant professor of English at Cairo University. She is the author of Aspects of War Neuroses in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy: The Great War and Neuroses .