[1] He was born in Alexandria of Nubian parents who had left their impoverished native village.
His works have received several Egyptian literary awards, and he obtained government grants for the years 1996-1998 and 2002–2003, to complete his novels.
Most of his work attempts to preserve various aspects of the gradually disappearing Nubian culture and language.
He is often regarded as one of a group of contemporary Nubian authors, the others being Idris Ali, Hasan Nur, and Yehya Mukhtar.
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