Michel Cuypers is from Belgium and lives in Hagaza, a small city near Luxor in Egypt. Born on 1941, he is a member of the Fraternity of the Little Brothers of Jesus (Father de Foucauld). He lived twleve years in Iran, where he obtained a PhD in Persian literature at the University of Tehran and then worked at the University Press of Iran. He was one of the co-founders of Luqmân, a journal of iranology. Michel Cuypers left Iran in 1986 and, after studying Arabic, he became a researcher at IDEO (Cairo), where he focuses on the rhetoric analysis of the Qur’an.