The Author was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1958, but lived in Cairo thereafter and graduated from College De La Salle, in 1975, to join the Cairo University Faculty of Medicine. He then graduated in 1981; finished his Internship in the Cairo University hospitals, worked for a year as a Health Inspector in Torrah طره , a Cairoan suburb and frequented the infamous prison سجن طره there for a year, and started residence in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Cairo, for a short while, and then immigrated to United States in October of 1984. He specialized in the treatment of Chronic Pain which got him in touch with people's suffering and probably instigated his poetic inclination. He settled in Maryland a mid Atlantic State bordering the cultural centers of Washington DC and Virginia and Baltimore and Annapolis.
He only suddenly started to write in April of 2000, an unforeseen and unexplainable compelling urge that overwhelmed him at the time. He had always enjoyed literature, and admired Naguib Mahfouz نجيب محفوظ and Salah Jaheen صلاح جاهين , , his favorites, but he also enjoyed Louis Awad د. لويس عوض , Tawfik El Hakeem توفيق الحكيم , Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Beiram El Tounsi بيرم التونسى and is currently discovering the writings of Salama Moussa سلامه موسى ..