Complex sentence: Awad became the literary editor at the newspaper al-Ahram-the largest daily newspaper of the Middle East making him one of the leading opinion-makers in the Arab world.
Split into simpler sentences: Awad became the literary editor at the newspaper al-Ahram, which was the largest daily newspaper of the Middle East. Awad's writings in al-Ahram made him one of the leading opinion-makers in the Arab world.