'lounge' that he kept a painting in his bedroom that displayed a beautiful cake with cockroaches crawling over it. Supposedly, Al-Aqqad kept this in his room as 'the first thing he looked at in the morning and the last thing he saw in the evening'. It symbolized beauty and purity (the cake) that is wasted to the glamor of spotlights (the cockroaches) as was the case (as he perceived) with actress Madiha Yousri. Death Al-Aqqad died on the morning of 13 March 1964. His body was transported to his hometown, Aswan, for burial on the same day. In the early 1980s, an Egyptian television series was produced about the life of al-Aqqad, which was titled The Giant (Al Imlaq in Arabic). It starred Egyptian actor Mahmud Mursi. There is a street in the Nasr City district of Cairo named after al-Aqqad. Works Abbās al-Aqqād was "a prolific writer, he authored over a hundred books and several thousand articles", and he is most famous for his Abqarīyat series which consists of seven books cover the life of seven of the most important Sahabah like Abu Bakr and Ali. His works include: The genius of Christ (2001) translated F. Peter Ford, . See also Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar References External links Biography at Philosophers of the Arabs Biography at Arab World Books Mahmud Abbās al-Aqqād statue in Aswan 1889 births 1964 deaths Mujaddid People from Aswan Literary critics of Arabic Egyptian male poets Egyptian male writers Egyptian literary critics 20th-century Egyptian writers 20th-century Egyptian poets Egyptian people of Kurdish descent 20th-century male writers 20th-century non-fiction writers 20th-century Egyptian politicians Male non-fiction writers Egyptian magazine founders Wafd Party politicians Members of Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo