Ahmed Khaled Tawfik

Born on 10 June 1962 in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta,[6][4] Tawfik graduated from Tanta University's medical school in 1985.[6] In 1992, he joined the Modern Arab Association publishing company and began writing his first series of novels the following year.[7] In January 1993, he published the first installment in his horror/thriller series Ma Waraa Al Tabiaa (Arabic: ما وراء الطبيعة), which translates to Beyond nature or "Metaphysics".[5][7] He also wrote periodical articles for journals and web-based magazines such as El Destoor and Rewayty.[8] His writing style appealed to both Egyptian and broader Arabic-speaking audiences, gaining him popularity in Egypt, and the rest of the Middle East.[8]

Tawfik's novels typically feature all Egyptian characters, and are set both in Egypt, and around the world. Some of his characters are semi-autobiographical. Tawfik draws from personal experiences in their creation; fans consider him their "godfather" and identify him most closely with his character Refaat Ismael, who is featured in the Ma Waraa Al Tabiaa series.[8] His book Utopia may even reflect Egypt as it is becoming, with rich and poor and no middle-class.[9]

He began writing his stories when he was only ten years old, and he wrote, in all, more than 500 books.[3] His series Fantasia was the first of its kind; a plot that presents famous literary works to young people, through an interactive presentation. Fantasia presented his readers to a wide spectrum of topics from Arthur Conan Doyle and Sikhism, to Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Mafia's Cosa Nostra.

Other works include:

• An Arabic translation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club.[10]
• Utopia is about Egyptian people living in a dystopian and utopian society, separated by walls. It's a fictional, political-minded novel, published by Merit, translated into English by Chip Rosetti.[4] There were plans to make it a major motion picture, with a scheduled release date of 2017;[11] however, the project did not come to fruition. Utopia translated into Italian in 2019 by Barbara Benini
• El-Singa (Egyptian slang for The Knife) is an Egyptian politically-flavored novel published by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing.[12][13]
• Just Like Icarus is a fictional political-minded novel, published by Dar El Shorouq.[14]
• Ahmad Khaled also wrote periodical articles for "El Dostoor" newspaper in Egypt.
• Rewayat (Egyptian pocket novels)[15]
• Shabeeb Novel[16]
• "Your luck today" novel, published in 2010.[17]
• "Tea with mint" collection of articles published in 2012.[18]
• "You are not alone"[19]
• "Sombre laughs".[20]
• " A story you will end." [21]
• " Now we open the box" part 1.[22]
• " Now we open the box" part 2.[23]

Ahmed Khaled Tawfik died on 2 April 2018 at El Demerdash Hospital in Cairo, Egypt.[24][25][26] He had undergone, on the same day, a cardiac ablation surgery to correct his long-term arrhythmia. The immediate cause of death was reported to be cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation that he suffered a few hours after waking up from the surgery.[27][28]

• In April 2018, the Egyptian rock band Cairokee released a song titled He's No Longer A Child (Arabic: ما عاد صغيرا) based on lyrics from Dr. Tawfik's 1987 poem Coronary Arteries (Arabic: شرايين تاجية).[29]
• On 10 June 2019, on Tawfik's 57th birthday, he was honored with a Google Doodle.[30]
• On 5 November 2020, Netflix released Paranormal, a six-part adaptation of Ma Waraa Al Tabiaa, which marked the streaming service's first original Egyptian series.
• On 31 October 2022, Shahid released the first episode of the first season of Room 207, a ten episode season adaptation of the book with the same title.

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• Dr. Ahmad at The World of Stories (in Arabic)
• Dr. Ahmad at Rewayat.com (in Arabic)

• 10 June: Remembering Ahmed Khaled Tawfik on Birthday