Google highlighted the legendary Egyptian writer Ihsan Abdel Kouddous today with one of its honorary doodles on its home page. Kouddous was an Egyptian journalist and author who wrote over 20 novels and 600 short stories, making him one of the most prolific and popular Arab writers of the 20th century. He was jailed several times by successive Egyptian rulers and faced multiple assassination attempts. He died in 1990, but his work remains widely read across the Arab world. He is also the grandfather of Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous, who wrote about his legacy on the Google doodle page.