of the High Dam (with Sunallah Ibrahim and Kamal al-Qalash), Cairo: Dar al-Katib al-Arabi, 1967 يا ليل يا عين / O Night, O Eyes, Cairo: Ministry of Culture, 1970 لومومبا والنفق مسرحيتان / Lumumba and The Tunnel – Two Plays, Cairo: al-Hay’a al-'aama lil-ta’lif wa-l-nashr, 1970 صباح الخير يا وطن: شهادة من بيروت المحاصرة / Good Morning Homeland: A Testament from Beirut Under Siege, Cairo: Matbu'at al-Qahira, 1983 بيضة النعامة / Ostrich Egg, London: Riad el-Rais Books, 1994 Five prints - last one "Elain Publishing -2011" مزاج التماسيح / Crocodile Mood, Cairo: Maktabat Madbuli, 2000" About Muslims -Coptic conflicts in Egypt ( out of print) في انتظار المخلص: رحلة إلى الأرض المحرمة / Waiting for the Saviour: A Journey to the Holy Land, Cairo: Maktabat Madbuli, 2000 A number of his mature works are either out of print, awaiting reprint or yet to be published at all. Below are those for which details are available. غواية الوصال / The Temptation of Being TogetherPublished -Cairo 1997 ( out of print ) صانعة المطر / The RainmakerPublished -Cairo 1999 ( out of print) السودان: ستون عاما من الحنين / Sudan: Sixty Years of Longing Published in " Al- Quds Al- Arbi News paper October 2002 سجون أبي / My Father’s Prisons. (With his daughter Yara)- not finished إيثاكا /Iethaka .. based on the arresting of a group of Homosexuals in Egypt in a case known internationally as " Queen Boat " Cairo 2007 - Out of print لما البحر ينعس: مقاطع من حياتي / When the sea sleeps: Excerpts from My Life, Cairo: Dār al-Nasīm lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ 2019 His novel Ostrich Egg has been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish and Dutch: Spanish: El Huevo del Avestruz, Raúf M. Basta. Translated by Salvador Peña Martín. Guadarrama: Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo. (Memorias del Mediterráneo) 1997 French: L'Oeuf de l'autruche, Raouf Moussad-Basta. Translated by Yves Gonzalez-Quijano. Arles: Actes Sud. (Mémoires de la Méditerranée) 1997 Italian: L'uovo di struzzo : memorie erotiche, Ra'uf Mus'ad Basta. Translated by Wasim Dahmash and Angelo Arioli. Rome: Jouvence. (Memorie del Mediterraneo) 1998 Dutch: Het struisvogelei, translated by Dieuwke Poppinga and Richard van Leeuwen, published by De Geus Swedish: He also wrote two adaptions of plays for the theater from two novels " El Lagnah by Sonallah Ibrahim and "the strange events " by Palestinian writer Emil Habiby and other plays for children. References 1937 births Living people