Born 1938, in Berket El - Sab′, Menufia.
Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo , Painting Department, in 1963.
Diploma in Egyptology, Cairo University , 1973.

Formerly Director for the Archaeological Drawing Directorate, Organization of Egyptian Antiquities ; following his graduation from the Faculty of Fine Arts, in 1963 ; and in 1993 he gave up his post, and devoted his full time for Painting & Writing.

Held an Exhibition titled "Childhood in Ancient Egypt", 1980, in Manial Museum .

He took a part in the restoration of the "HB – Sd" Hall, with the eminent French architect Jean – Philippe Lauer , and painted two pictures in an exhibition accompanying the celebration in1980, of J. P. Lauer's Books, and architectural restorations in King Zoser's Step Pyramid Complex, in Saqqara.

Translated "America" a novel by Franz Kafka which was serialized in "Al – Mesaa" Daily newspaper, in 1970 ( February ) ; then issued in a book form in "Rewayat Al – Hilal" 1970 (August). Also serialized in "Al _ Mesaa", and later issued in a book form, the Short Stories and Letters of Kafka, and all the three books was accompanied with his Drawings (Etchings) and Illustrations, 1968, 1978 – 1997.
He wrote and published Short Stories since 1959, in "Al – Mesaa", "Al – Khateb", "Al – Hilal", "Sabah El – Khir", "Gallery 68", "Sanabel" etc. .

Translated and published long chapters from " Laocoon, An essay upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry " by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 1729 – 1781 ) : In "AL – Mesaa" Daily newspaper, in October 1976.
Translated and published in "Al – Mesaa", in October 1976, in ten instalment serial, a psychological study, titled "Interpretations of the artistic style, from Eugène Delacroix′ s journal" by psychologist Daniel Schneider.

Accompanying virtually all the Short Stiry writers and poets of the ( sixties generation ) with his Press Illustrations throughout the sixties and the seventies years, in "Al – Mesaa", "Al – Hilal".

Translated and published in "Al – Qahira" a monthly magazine a psychoanalytical study for Picasso's paintings, and also a long psychoanalytical study for James Joyce's writings, dealing with his novel Ulysses.

Four Aspects for the Pyramid, October 2000, an exhibition at Khan al Maghrabi gallery.

Thus Spoke the Sphinx, February 2004, an exhibition at Gallery Picasso.