Tharwat Abaza

Tharwat Abaza (28 June 1927 – 17 March 2002) was an Egyptian journalist and novelist.^[1] His best-known novel, A Man Escaping from Time, was turned into an Egyptian television series in the late 1960s, and A Taste of Fear, a short story which was turned into an Egyptian film in the late 1960s.^[2][3]

Tharwat Abaza with Nobel laureate in literature Naguib Mahfouz

A journalist for Al Arabi newspaper was sentenced to prison for six months due to alleged defamation to Abaza.^[4] He died at the age of 74 in 2002. He was a member of the literary and aristocratic family, the Abaza family.

See also

• Abaza family
• Fekry Pasha Abaza
• Egyptian literature
• Arabic literature
• Circassians in Egypt