Sharif Hatata (Arabic: شريف حتاتة; 13 September 1923 – 22 May 2017) was an Egyptian doctor, author and communist activist.
Early life
Hatata was born in Egypt on 13 September 1923 to an Egyptian father, Fathallah Hetata Pasha, and an English mother. His father was a Western-educated, feudal landowner, and his family was upper middle class. Hatata, who was raised in his home village in the Nile Delta region, was taught little about agriculture, the sector his family relied on for income. In h...