winner Human & Future Studies
Second Circle 1990-1991

• Born in Mait Al Khouli village, Dumiat, Egypt, 1905
• Spent a part of his childhood in Khartoum with his family
• Did his BA in literature and education from Higher Education School in 1930
• Worked in education until 1943
• Worked in the Ministry of Education’s  Public Culture Department, 1943-1944
• Did his PhD in philosophy in 1944
• Joined the faculty of Literature College, Cairo University
• Became visiting lecturer at Colombia University, USA, 1952
• Worked as cultural attaché at the Egyptian Embassy to Washington, 1954-1955
• Launched Al Fikr Al Mouaser magazine in 1965
• Received an Honorary Doctorate from American University of Beirut, 1985

Awards

• State Merit Award of Philosophy, 1960
• State Recognition Award of Literature, 1975
• Arab League’s Culture Award, 1984

Decision of the General Secretariat

Dr. Zaki Nageeb Mahmood is among the few Arab writers who discussed philosophy and made it a part of their culture.

Students of philosophy refer to his books. He has been writing since 1970. He has enriched the Arabic library with a great range of books that deal with Arabic culture and the understanding of heritage.

He is well known in the Arab world. He grew famous through half a century of effort. He has always had the courage to say what he thinks is right, and defend it.

Famous Works 

Philosophy

• The Earthly Logic, 2 vol.
• An Attitude to Metaphysics
• The Thought in the New World
• Bertrand Russell
• David Hume
• The Artistic Orient
• Jabir Bin Hayan
• Towards a Scientific Philosophy

Thought and Culture

• Peels and Cores
• Renewal of the Arab Thought
• The Illogical Reason in Our Intellectual Heritage
• Our Culture and Modern Time
• A New Society or the Catastrophe
• An Islamic Vision
• Modernising Arab Culture

Literature

• Hinna the Idiot
• Sunrise from the West
• The Earthly Comedy
• A Soul Tale
• The Land of Dreams

Died on September 8, 1993