سمسمة كامل الكيلاني

Kamel Kilani: An Egyptian writer and writer, who took children's literature as his path, and was called the "pioneer of children's literature." He addressed children on the radio, and was the first founder of a children's library in Egypt. Kamel Kilani Ibrahim Kilani was born in Cairo in 1897 AD, and completed the memorization of the Holy Qur’an in his childhood, and joined Umm Abbas Primary School, then moved to Cairo Secondary School, and then joined the ancient Egyptian University in 1917 AD, and Kilani also worked as a government employee in the Ministry of Awqaf for a period of thirty-two A year during which he rose to the position of secretary of the Supreme Council of Endowments, as well as secretary of the Arab Literature Association, and president of both the “Al-Rajaa Newspaper” and the “Modern Acting Club.” He worked as a journalist and worked in literature and the arts besides that. Kilani adopted a distinguished approach and a genius style in his writing of children's literature, as he insisted on the need to focus on classical in order not to create a cultural rupture with the historical self. He has comparative knowledge. Children were not immersed in Western literature as a world literature. Rather, his works were a carnival in which many cultural colors participated. Some of them belonged to Persian, Chinese, Indian, Western, and Arabic literature, and its sources were myths, world literature and popular literature. He organized poetry. Poems and verses were often interspersed with his fictional works, and he was keen to develop through them the queen of artistic taste as well as the child's cognitive knowledge, as he directed the child to good qualities, noble qualities, and good behavior. This is done implicitly, and its text does not appear explicitly as a preaching or rhetorical text. Kilani made contributions in fields other than children’s literature, where he translated, wrote travel literature, and history. He died in 1959, leaving behind a great literary heritage that benefits the young before the old.