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  • Dr. Mosharafa was one of the distinguished few who were in close contact with the great scientist Einstein. He enriched Einstein's theory on relativity. He was an Arab pioneer in natural sciences. He wrote 26 significant researches including theoretical explanations of natural phenomena. He expounded a theory which facilitated the study of the basic structure of the atom.
  • Dr. Mosharafa was born in Damietta at 11 july 1898
  • He received his elementary education in Damietta then completed his secondary education in El_Saidia school in Cairo in 1914.
  • He obtained his Ph.D. in 1923 from Totingham university.
  • He was also a philosopher, and a musician.
  • Dr. Mosharafa died on Monday 15/1/1950.
  • Dr. Moshara has a wax statue in Madam Tussaud's wax cabinet in London .

  • An Egyptian writer and professor of literature, was born in 1913 (also listed as c.1920) in the town of Damietta (Dumyat) in northern Egypt. Her father taught at the Dumyat Religious Institute, while her mother was illiterate. It was her mother, however, who enrolled Aisha in school at age ten during a prolonged absence of her father and, despite his objections, sent Aisha to al-Mansurah to continue her education.
  • Later, Aisha Abd al-Rahman attended the Cairo University and graduated in 1939 with a degree in Arabic, which she followed with an M.A. degree in 1941. In 1942, Abd al-Rahman accepted a position with the Egyptian Ministry of Education as an Inspector for teaching of Arabic literature.
  • After receiving her Ph.D. degree with distinction in 1950, she has been Professor of Arabic Literature at the University College for Women of the Ain Shans University.
  • In addition to teaching, she wrote fiction as well as biographies of early Muslim women, including the mother, wives, and daughters of the Prophet Muhammad, but is best known for her literary criticism. Some of her published works are:
    • The Egyptian Countryside (1936),
    • The Problem of the Peasant (1938),
    • Secret of the Beach and Master of the Estate: The Story of a Sinful Woman (1942),
    • New Values in Arabic Literature (1961) and
    • Contemporary Arab Women Poets (1963).

  • Born on February 1st, 1905 in "Meat Al-Kholi Abdullah" village on Nile Bank between Al-Mansoura and Damietta, Zaki was fostered within large-member family with different shares of education but all civil servants. Accompanying his father who was working as a public officer in the Sudanese government - the headquarters then was in Cairo - Zaki moved to Cairo as he joined Sultan Hussein School.


  • Zaki Naguib Mahmoud had a long journey in the kingdoms of philosophy, literature, criticism, logic, translation & culture; that tanged his character by a very special image. He wrote his biography, which is deemed to be one of the greatest in the history of Arabic literature, to depict his scientific and literary life in such unprecedented candid impartiality and absolute frankness.



  • Born on 1927, in Damietta at Shabatany str.
  • He received his early education in the Hadaia primary school and completed it in Maser Elgidida primary in Cairo school in 1940.
  • One of the Egyptian heros, who made the vectory for Egypt against Israel.
  • He was known in Israel as Jack Beton Passport NO. 268064 "Tel Aviv" and his code in the Egyptian Security office was 313.
  • Ra'afat El-Hagann died on 1982.



  • Born on 1908 in Damietta
  • He received his early education in the religious institutes and then faculty of "Arabic language" Cairo university.
  • He worked as a primary and eduction school teacher
  • Wrote more than 2000 show to the TV and Radio and one of his best shows is "Alf lila wa lila" (thousand and one night) which lasts 26 years.

  • Born in Damietta at 08.08.1923.
  • Worked as a professor of English literature in the Girls college –Ain Shams university,
  • Was awarded the Republic of Egypt’s appreciative prize in literature.
  • Is considered as a symbol of the national culture and the pioneer of the feminine movement in Egypt.
  • Died in 11.09.19996 leaving behind an enormous amount of prosaic and literary work.

  • Born in Damietta in January 1936
  • He received his early education in Damietta primary & secondary school
He was He is a poet and a radio announcer . He learned the holy Quraan in his village in forty's . his BA in Arabic language and education diploma and broadcasting institute . He worked as a teacher then he joined the broadcasting work . He became of the director of the main program in the radio . His poems are also remarkable in their language and thought . He had 2 daughters . His first poet is " To Passenger "




 
 
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