given the laqab (i.e. epithet) of عدو المرأة ('Aduww al Mar'a), meaning "Enemy of woman." However, he eventually married and had two children, a son and a daughter. His wife died in 1977; his son died in 1978 in a car accident. He died July 23, 1987. List of works A Bullet in the Heart, 1926 (Plays) Leaving Paradise, 1926 (Plays) The Diary of a Country Prosecutor, 1933 (Novel) (translation exists at least into Spanish, German and Swedish, and into English by Abba Eban as Maze of Justice (1947)) The People of the Cave, 1933 (Play) The Return of the Spirit, 1933 (Novel) Shahrazad, 1934 (Play) Muhammad the Prophet, 1936 (Biography) A Man without a Soul, 1937 (Play) A Sparrow from the East, 1938 (Novel) Ash'ab, 1938 (Novel) The Devil's Era, 1938 (Philosophical Stories) My Donkey told me, 1938 (Philosophical Essays) Praxa/The problem of ruling, 1939 (Play) The Dancer of the Temple, 1939 (Short Stories) Pygmalion, 1942 Solomon the Wise, 1943 Boss Kudrez's Building, 1948 King Oedipus, 1949 Soft Hands, 1954 Equilibrium, 1955 Isis, 1955 The Deal, 1956 The Sultan's Dilemma, 1960 The Tree Climber, 1966 The Fate of a Cockroach, 1966 Anxiety Bank, 1967 The Return of Consciousness, 1974 Novel and play adaptations 1944: A Bullet in the Heart (film) 1960: The Holy Bond (film) 1963: Soft Hands (film) 1964: A Bullet in the Heart (play) 1964: Food for the Millions (Radio miniseries) 1967: Leaving Paradise (film) 1973: Death Song (Short film) 1973: Witch (Short film) 1976: The Quiet Nest (film) 1977: The Return of the Spirit (TV miniseries) 1986: A Sparrow from the East (film) External links Egyptian figures References 1898 births 1987 deaths Writers from Alexandria Egyptian journalists Egyptian Muslims Egyptian novelists 20th-century Egyptian writers Egyptian speculative fiction writers Egyptian dramatists and playwrights Egyptian people of Turkish descent 20th-century novelists 20th-century dramatists and playwrights 20th-century journalists