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Al-Ahram Weekly 4 -10 February 1999 Issue No. 415 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 4 -10 February 1999 Issue No. 415
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Egypt Region International Book Fair Economy Opinion Culture Features Living Travel Sports People Time Out Chronicles Cartoons Letters Novelist dies
FATHI GHANEM, the veteran journalist and novelist, died on Tuesday aged 75. He passed away in the early morning at a Cairo hospital where he was being treated for cancer.
Ghanem wrote several best-selling novels, some of which were made into films. Among his most famous are The Man Who Lost His Shadow, Zeinab and the Throne and The Elephants.
Ghanem, born in March 1924, graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1944 and began a career as a state prosecutor before turning to journalism. In 1953 he was made deputy chief editor of Akher Saa magazine. He moved to Rose El-Youssef magazine in 1956 as deputy chief editor then became chief editor of Sabah El-Kheir magazine in 1959.
In 1965, he was appointed board chairman and chief editor of the Middle East News Agency and the following year was made board chairman of the Al-Tahrir publishing house and chief editor of Al-Gomhouria newspaper. He served as chief editor of Rose El-Youssef between 1973 and 1977 and later devoted himself to literary life.
Saving Wye
PALESTINIAN President Yasser Arafat arrived in Washington late on Tuesday on a three-day visit to discuss Israel's suspension of the Wye River agreement with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and congressional leaders.Arafat was to spend some time with President Bill Clinton at a national prayer breakfast with American lawmakers today. The national Jewish coalition urged lawmakers to boycott the breakfast, but US officials accused Israel of trying to torpedo the Clinton-Arafat meeting by alleging that Arafat had released Palestinians suspected of planning attacks against Americans. State Department spokesman James Rubin said there was no evidence to support the Israeli allegations.
