winner Critisism & Literature Studies
Eighth Circle 2002-2003

• Born in Gharbiya, Egypt, 1922
• Currently, part-time professor, Ain Shams University
• Worked in education since 1951
• Professor at Benghazi university 1970, Sana’a University 1981 and lectured at London University’s Eastern Languages School 1963-1966 and American University of Cairo
• Attended many events in Jeddah, Bahrain, Cairo and Morocco.

 Decision of the General Secretariat   

Nassif dedicated nearly half a century of his life to modern literary criticism. He wrote a large number of theoretical and applied critical studies that contributed to establishing a modern Arab trend that maintains traditional inspiration while remaining open to modern universal trends.He revised many prevailing critical concepts and rules and polished the aesthetics of normal texts.

 Awards

• Babtin Award of Best Poetry Criticism Book
• The State Merit Award, Egypt

 Famous Works

• The literary Image
• Studies of Arabic literature
• The Child Motif in Al Mazini Works
• The Theory of Meaning In Arabic Criticism
• The Problem of Meaning In Arabic Criticism
• A Second Reading of Our Old Poetry, Language between Rhetoric and Style
• Taha Hussain and the Heritage
• Rivalry with Critics
• The Theory of Interpretation
• Voice of the Old Poet
• The Absent Face
• Ahmad Hijazi, the Modern Poet
• Our Culture and the Modern Poetry
• Language, Rhetoric and the New birth
• Language, Interpretation and Communication
• Approaches to Arabic Prose
• A Second Theory for Arabic Criticism