[HIGHLIGHTS] Sabri Hafez: Edward Said would have won the Nobel Prize, and this is my story with Sartre and Abdel Nasser

Hafez: "My eyes, heart, and pen never left the East, and I did not abandon writing in the Arabic language" "I present the best of the West to Arab culture, and in return I present part of our Arab culture to the English reader," he says. "I was one of the writers who contributed most to cultural work," Hafez says.

'I am not a writer, I am a person who is a part of the culture,' Hafez tells Al Jazeera.