The BA Mourns the Late Thinker Dr. Salah Fadl
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina and its staff mourn, with great sadness and sorrow, the great thinker and critic Prof. Salah Fadl, President of the Academy of the Arabic Language, who passed away on Saturday, 10 December 2022, hoping that God Almighty will bestow His mercy on him.
Prof. Ahmed Zayed, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, on behalf of the Library's administration and its entire staff, extends his sincere condolences to the family and students of Dr. Salah Fadl on this great loss, asking God Almighty to grant them patience and solace.
Dr. Salah Fadl obtained his BA from the Faculty of Dar Al Uloom, Cairo University, in 1962, and his PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1972. Upon returning to Egypt, he worked as a professor of literature and criticism at Al-Azhar’s Faculty of Arabic Language and Faculty of Medicine for Girls. Since 1979, he had been working as a professor of literary criticism and comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, where he headed its Arabic Language Department. He was also a visiting professor of Arabic literature at several international universities, including the universities of Sana'a in Yemen and Bahrain, and served as Dean of the Higher Institute of Art Criticism at the Academy of Arts in Egypt from 1985 to 1988.
Moreover, he was elected a member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in 2003, and became its president in 2020. He received several awards locally and internationally, most notably the State Appreciation Award in Literature, the Nile Award in Literature, the Owais Award for Literary Studies and Criticism, and the Al-Babtain Prize for Poetry Criticism.
The BA pays tribute to Dr. Fadl’s outstanding intellectual career, as he served, with great sincerity, the interest of his country and nation, while devoting all his efforts to fulfill the various tasks entrusted to him.