Who was Abdul Rahman Munif? Google Doodle celebrates Saudi novelist
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DUBAI: Google Doodle on Monday celebrated what would have been the 90th birthday of Saudi novelist, journalist and cultural critic Abdelrahman Munif. Munif was born on May 29, 1933 in Amman, Jordan. In 1952, he moved to Iraq to study law at the University of Baghdad. Years later he graduated from Cairo University in Egypt before earning his PhD in petroleum economics at the
Some of the 15 novels and nine non-fiction books by Munif, one of the most prominent Saudi authors of the 20th century, have been translated into over 10 languages