Egypt

Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi is a world-renowned writer. She is a novelist, a psychiatrist, and the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction. She writes in Arabic and lives in Egypt. Her novels and…...

Miral Al-Tahawy

Critically acclaimed Egyptian author Miral al-Tahawy was born in Sharqiya in the Egyptian Delta into a Bedouin family of the al-Hanadi tribe. The youngest of seven children, she is now an assistant professor…...

Albert Cossery

"The Voltaire of the Nile," Albert Cossery (1913–2008) was born in Cairo. At the age of seventeen he moved to Paris, where he would live for the rest of his life. Some of his books translated into…...

Yusuf al-Shirbini

Yusuf al-Shirbini wrote his primary work, Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded [Hazz al-Quhuf bi-Sharh Qasid Abi Shaduf ], in or shortly after 1686. His only other known work is a homily…...

Gamal al-Ghitani

Gamal al-Ghitani was born in 1945 and educated in Cairo. He has written thirteen novels and six collections of short stories. He is currently editor in chief of the literary review Akhbar al-adab. ...

Lenin El-Ramly

Lenin El-Ramly was born in 1945. He is not only a playwright, but a writer for television and film, a producer of theater and film, and a company manager. His expressionism and his penchant for popular…...

Haggag Hassan Oddoul

Haggag Hassan Oddoul (born Alexandria, Egypt, 1944) an ethnic Nubian author--who writes in Arabic--did construction work on the Aswan High Dam and has served in the Egyptian armed forces during two wars.…...

Hamdi Abu Golayyel

Hamdy Abu Golayyel, born in 1968, now lives in greater Cairo, where he is Editorial Director for the Folk and Popular Culture Studies Series in the Mass/Public Culture Administration, Government of Egypt.…...

Samah Selim

Samah Selim is the translator of Memories of a Meltdown: An Egyptian between Moscow and Chernobyl by Mohamed Makhzangi (AUC Press, 2006). She won the 2009 Saif Gobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary…...

Na’am al-Baz

Na'am al-Baz is an Egyptian journalist who has written for Al-Akhbar newspaper.

Tamer Fathy

Tamer Fathy's debut collection of poetry, Yesterday I Lost A Button, was published in 2005. All of the poems in the book revolved around clothes-their personalities, their memories, and their desires.…...

Mahmoud El-Wardani

Mahmoud El-Wardani (born Cairo, 1950) has published six novels and several collections of short stories. Typically his works are dispassionate and discontinuous depictions of ambiguous, disturbing situations.…...

Salwa Bakr

Salwa Bakr is the author of a number of books in Arabic. One of her novels (The Golden Chariot) and two short story collections (The Wiles of Men and Such A Beautiful Voice) have been published in English…...

Iman Mersal

Iman Mersal was born in 1966 in a small village in the Delta. A graduate of Mansura University, she was co-editor from 1985 to 1988 of the independent feminist magazine, Bint al-Ard (Daughter of the Earth).…...

Mohamed Makhzangi

As a young doctor studying in Kiev in 1986, Mohamed Makhzangi found himself in the midst of a public health catastrophe when the Chernobyl nuclear plant melted down that spring. Through an array of brief…...

Sayed Ragab

Sayed Ragab lives in Cairo, where he is a well-known and critically acclaimed actor and storyteller in the independent theater scene. He began writing his own stories in 1998, one of which, "Rat," has…...

André Aciman

André Aciman is the author of Out of Egypt: A Memoir, False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory, and Call Me By Your Name, a novel. He is also the co-author and editor of The Proust Project and Letters…...

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Radwa Ashur

One of Egypt's leading writers, Radwa 'Ashur has published a number of novels and collections of short stories in Arabic. She is perhaps best known for her Granada Trilogy (Thulathiyyat granata),…...

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