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Yahya Haqqi Muhammad Haqqi (17 January 1905 AD - 9 December 1992 AD) was an Egyptian writer and novelist. Among his most important works are the novels Qandil Umm Hashem and Al-Bostaji. Yahya Haqqi was born into a family with Turkish roots in Cairo. He received a good education until he became involved in law, where he studied at the Institute of Law in Cairo and graduated from it in 1925. Yahya Haqqi is considered a prominent figure in literature and cinema, and he is one of the great Egyptian writers alongside Naguib Mahfouz and Youssef Idris. Yahya Haqqi received his initial education in the book “Al-Sayida Zainab.” After the family moved from “Al-Sayida Zainab” to live in the “Khalifa neighborhood,” he joined in 1912 the “mother of Abbas Pasha I” primary school in the “Al-Salibia” neighborhood in Cairo, and this school follows the same endowment He was followed by (the path of Umm Abbas), who is still in the "Sulaibiya" neighborhood, and it is a free school for the poor and the public, and this school is where Mustafa Kamel Pasha was educated. Yahya Haqqi spent five years in it very miserable, especially after failing in the first year following the fear and terror that he faced from his teachers. However, after the shock of being left behind by his peers, he was able to overcome his sense of fear and to strive to appease his mother, who had toiled and toiled hard to bring them to safety. In 1917, he obtained his primary certificate, so he joined the Sufi School, and then the Elhamiya Secondary School in Bagadan, where he stayed for two years. Until he obtained a certificate of competency, then in 1920 he joined the "Saidiya" school - and at that time he lived with his family on Muhammad Ali Street - for one year. The first over all applicants in the whole country. In October 1921, he joined the Royal Higher School of Law at Fouad I University, and at that time it only accepted those who excelled, and scrutinized their selection. He was accompanied by peers and colleagues such as: Tawfiq Al-Hakim, Helmy Bahjat Badawi, and Dr. Abdul Hakim Al-Rifai; He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Law in 1925, and ranked fourteenth.