Mohamed El-Bisatie was born on November 19, 1937, in the Nile Delta in a place called el-Gamalia, Dakahlia, in Sharqiya Province, Egypt, a setting that dominates most of El-Bisatie’s writings. He came into this world on a stormy night, as he informs his readers in his autobiography, Wa ya’ti al-Qitar (And the train comes, 1999), born to Ibrahim, his father, who was a teacher, and Insaf Rustum, his mother. His mother later told her son that the rain, lightning, and thunder of that birthday storm marked his personality, making him very curious about life and a bit troublesome....
Source: Short Stories for Students, ©2013 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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