Nabil Ragheb is a contemporary Egyptian critic, writer, thinker and writer, born in Tanta in 1940. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Department of English Literature, and a Ph.D. from Cairo and Lancaster Universities in England. He worked for the Institute for three consecutive terms. He also worked as an advisor to the Minister of Culture in Egypt from 1969 to 1973. After that he worked as an advisor to the late President Mohamed Anwar Sadat from 1975 to 1981. He worked as a visiting professor at the University of Exeter in England from 1982 to 1986. He wrote 28 novels, some of which were turned into Films such as The Power of a Woman, Spider’s Thread, Love of the Snake, and the series “Burj Al-Akaber” for Egyptian television. He has more than one hundred books in critical, political, philosophical, cultural and civilizational studies. He has also participated in many Arab and international art and political conferences, seminars and festivals. He is now working as a professor of art criticism at the Higher Institute for Art Criticism and the Faculty of Mass Communication at Misr University for Science and Technology.