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The head of the national centre for translation in Egypt .Dr Gaber Asfour won the UNISCO organization prize for the Arab culture this year.
Dr Asfour considered the first Egyptian Thinker takes the prize that is given by the international organisation annually to an important Arab character in his cultural achievement, the prize is about 30 thousand American dollars, it also given in the same time to a foreign character who does a special role in serving the Islamic and Arab culture.
So beside Asfour , the Portuguese historian and writer Jouse Aberto Kowhlo,that was the chef of the Arab studies centre in Portugal and his writings were translated into Arabic, won the prize too.
This prize will be given in a big ceremony that held by the international organisation in its head quarters in Paris during next November by attending the head (general secretary) of UNISCO organisation and El Sharka ruler Dr Sultan El Kasmy financer the prize and the owner of its idea.
Dr Gaber Asfour got his degree from the Arabic department in the faculty of arts at Cairo University in 1973.
Asfour has worked as a professor since 1966 and worked at Wisconsin Madison University in the United States, in Stockholm University in Sweden and head assistant in the faculty of Arts at Kuwait University, professor of literature criticism in the faculty of Arts at Cairo University .then he become the general secretary of the culture supreme Authority in Egypt since 1992 along 14 years.
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