Director

Yousef Idris

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 20

TMDB ID: 2011659

Known for: Writing

Born: May 19, 2027

Died: August 1, 1991

Place of birth: Egypt

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1963 - 2023

Years active: 61

Also known as

يوسف إدريس

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Writer (10)Novel (8)Screenplay (1)Story (1)

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Biography

Youssef Idris was an Egyptian writer of short stories and novellas. He was born in 1927, and studied at the Faculty of Medicine, where he also started his political activism against King Farouk's regime. He wrote his first short story while at the faculty, and it was highly praised by his colleagues. He continued working in medicine until 1960, and was employed as an editor in Al-Gomhoreya newspaper in 1957. His short stories are extremely popular in the Middle East, and were also translated to many languages and adapted to numerous short films.

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