Ikbal El Alaily

Ikbal El Alaily (died 1984) was an Egyptian surrealist writer, cofounder of the journal "La Part du Sable".
Life.
Ikbal El Alaily, known to friends as Boula, was a granddaughter of the poet Ahmed Shawqi. Her parents were Muslim, though she was already a nonbeliever by her teens. In 1939 she met and fell in love with Georges Henein. Despite parental opposition, the pair were inseparable, though they only formally married in 1954.
El Alaily's 1945 anthology, "The Virtue of Germany", made the case for German romanticism as a precursor of surrealism.
After her husband's death in 1973, she prepared his unpublished work for publication. She died in 1984.