Fatima Al-Madool…the personality of the Cairo International Children’s Book Fair…a pioneer of children’s literature in the Arab world
The Supreme Advisory Committee of the Cairo International Book Fair chose the writer Fatima Al-Madul to be the personality of this year’s Children’s Fair in its 56th session, which is scheduled to be held from January 23 to February 5 next under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
 
The writer Fatima Al-Ma’doul is considered one of the pioneers of children’s literature in Egypt and the Arab world. She graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in 1970, and was appointed to the Palace of Culture. Children in mass culture in 1972, and in 1977 I traveled on a mission to Hungary to study children’s theater. I worked as director of the Children’s Culture Palace in 1978, then director of the Children’s Culture Department in mass culture in 1980, and then general director of the National Children’s Theater in 1983.
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She also directed many children’s plays, and wrote more than 50 literary books for children of all ages. She directed a variety of short theatrical and cinematic works, and also held and supervised workshops and training courses for workers in children’s literature, storytelling arts, children’s libraries, children’s theater (puppet and human), and many theatrical workshops for disabled and normal children, and presented the first theater for the disabled in Egypt.
Al-Ma’doul won many awards, the most important of which is the Children’s Book Literature Award from the Kamel Kilani Award of the Supreme Council of Culture, and the Culture Award. Jamahiriya for the play “The Last of the Cluster”, the UNESCO Tolerance Award in 1999, for the book “Lines and Circles”, and the list of honor in the International Children’s Book Council 2006, for my book “Sultan Nabhan Asks for Favor”. “Sultan Nabhan Disappears from Sindistan,” the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival Award for the book “Basma’s Eyes,” the International Award at the Cairo Children’s Film Festival for the film “A Bird Finds a Nest,” and a certificate of appreciation for the film “Children of the Moon.” From the Cairo Children’s Film Festival.
She was also honored at the "Fifth Annual Conference of the Center for Documentation and Research of Children’s Literature" During the opening session of the conference.
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