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Yahya Haqqi
Yahya Haqqi (January 7, 1905 – December 9, 1992) was an Egyptian writer and novelist, and the author of the novel Umm Hashem’s Lamp.

Early life and family
Yahya Haqqi was born in the Cairo neighborhood of Zainab to a middle-class Turkish Muslim family. His ancestors had emigrated from Turkey to Greece, and one of the sons of that family, Ibrahim Haqqi (d. 1890), moved to Egypt in the early nineteenth century. Ibrahim Haqqi worked in Damietta for a period of time. He had three sons, one of whom, Muhammad Ibrahim Haqqi, became the father of Yahya Haqqi.