Mohammed Raja'a Abdel Mo'min Al-Naqqash (Arabic: رجاء النقاش), often referred to simply as Raja'a Al-Naqqash, was an Egyptian literary critic, intellectual, and journalist. A graduate of the Department of Arabic Language in Cairo University. Raja'a became a journalist, then editor, covering the modern literary scene of Egypt during its most formative years. He retired in 2008, continuing to write actively on literary topics he had focused on throughout his career. Works Original Works ʻAbāqirah wa-majānīn (عباقرة ومجانين) Geniuses and Nutcases Taʼammulāt fī al-insān Abū al-Qāsim al-Shabbī : shāʻir al-ḥubb wa-al-thawrah : dirāsat wa-mukhtārāt Ṣafaḥāt majhulah fī al-adab al-ʻArabī al-Muʻāṣir al-Inʻizālīyūn fī Miṣr : radd ʻalá Luwīs ʻAwaḍ wa-Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm wa-ākharīn Lughz Umm Kulthūm, wa-kalimāt ukhrá ʻAbbās al-ʻAqqād bayna al-yamīn wa-al-yasār Maḥmūd Darwīsh : shāʻir al-arḍ al-muḥtallah Thalāthūn ʻāman maʻa al-shiʻr wa-al-shuʻarāʼ : dirāsāt Fī ḥubb Najīb Maḥfūẓ / Rajāʼ al-Naqqāsh Qiṣṣat riwāyatayn : dirāsah naqdīyah wa-fikrīyah li-riwāyat Dhākirat al-jasad wa-riwāyat, Walīmah li-aʻshāb al-baḥr ; maʻa baḥth ʻan athar al-ḥizbīyah al-siyāsīyah fī al-adab Najīb Maḥfūz : safaḥāt min mudhakkirātihi wa-aḍwāʼ jadīdah ʻalá adabihi wa-ḥayātih نزار قباني : أجمل قصائدنا العربية / تقديم محمد عبد المنعم ؛ المشاركون رجاء النقاش Translations Victoria, written in Hebrew by Sami Michael References External links Abdel Rahman, Mahfouz. "The Jeweler: Mahfouz Abdel Rahman on Raja'a Al-Naqqash and The Days With Him". Al-Araby. February 18, 2008. 2008 deaths Egyptian journalists