Ali El-Makk, full name Ali Muhammad Ali El-Mak, spelled Ali El-Maak or Ali Makk, was a Sudanese writer, translator and literary scholar, known for his short stories, translations from English into Arabic and literary studies.
11 Facts About Ali El-Makk
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Ali El-Makk finished the fourth class in the El-Salemeaa primary school when his father transferred again to Meroe in the Northern State, a place which he later wrote much about.
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Ali El-Makk was inspired by his father's library, which contained many books of Sharia Law and its interpretation.
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Ali El-Makk made his first attempt at writing in Meroe during the summer holiday, where he edited a fortnightly magazine, writing under the pen name Gesimtty Keeda.
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Ali El-Makk joined the Wadi Sidenna secondary school in 1951.
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Ali El-Makk joined Khartoum University in 1955, graduating from the Faculty of Art with a Bachelor of Arts with honours degree in 1961.
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Ali El-Makk then moved to the United States, earning a master's degree in public administration in 1966 from the University of Southern California.
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Ali El-Makk returned to Sudan and worked in the Human Resource Department in the Ministry of the Treasury, and worked as a chief officer in the State Institution for Cinema, then he worked as a lecturer in Intuition of Public Administration in Khartoum, and then chief and chief-editor in Housing Publishing in Khartoum University.
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Ali El-Makk worked as an expert and as a professor at the Translation and Arabization Unit in Khartoum University.
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Ali El-Makk was awarded a scholarship from American Fulbright Institution in 1988, and conducted research at the University of New Mexico, focussing on the translations of native American myths into Arabic.
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Ali El-Makk contributed in many congresses, seminars, and festivals around the world, including The International Congress of Poetry in Astroja in former Yugoslavia in 1971, The Seventh International Festival of Cinema in Moscow in 1971, The festival of Saudi Arabian Writers in Riyadh in 1983, and The Seminar of International Book in Cambridge University in 1990.