Who is Aleifa Rifaat, whose birthday is Google Celebrating?

Google surprised the Egyptians today, Saturday, by celebrating a writer and writer who is not known to many, and whose fame has receded among women's circles and among some specialists. She is Alifa Rifaat, who wrote her literary works in English, and boldly broke into the hidden spaces of writing, which is to express the feelings of adolescent girls.

Fatima Abdullah Refaat, known as Elifa Refaat, was born on June 5, 1930. Her father worked as an architect, and her mother was a housewife. She joined Heliopolis Primary School in 1946, and wrote the first story at the age of nine about the village in which her family spends the summer vacation, and her family opposed She joined the College of Fine Arts, married her cousin, a police officer, and had three children with him.

Some of Rifaat's books did not know her way into Arabic when she appeared, as she wrote in English and translated her works into German, Dutch, French and Swedish, and was known for writing novels and short stories.

In her lifetime, she also visited many Arab and foreign countries, and among her most prominent works are "Who is the Man" and "Eve Returns to Adam", and she passed away in 1669.

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