Hamdy el-Gazzar

Hamdy el-Gazzar (Arabic: حمدي الجزار‎; born 1 October 1970) is an Egyptian writer.^[1] He was born in Giza and studied philosophy at Cairo University. He has been publishing since the 1990s; his literary output includes novels, short stories, stage plays and screenplays.

His first novel (Sehr Aswad) Black Magic won the Sawiris Prize and has been translated into English by Humphrey Davies. His second novel Ladhdhat Sirriyya (Secret Pleasures) was published in 2008.

Hamdy el-Gazzar was one of the 39 young Arab authors chosen by the Beirut39 project.

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Beirut39

Algeria	Abderrazak Boukebba

Egypt	Ahmad Yamani Hamdy el-Gazzar Mansoura Ez Eldin Mohammad Salah al Azab Nagat Ali Youssef Rakha

France	Faïza Guène

Iraq	Ahmad Saadawi Bassim al Ansar

Jordan	Hussein Jelaad Islam Samhan

Lebanon	Hala Kawtharani Hyam Yared Joumana Haddad Nazem El Sayed Rabee Jaber Samer Abou Hawwash Zaki Baydoun

Libya	Najwa Binshatwan

Morocco	Abdelaziz Errachidi Abdellah Taïa Abderrahim Elkhassar Yassin Adnan

Netherlands	Abdelkader Benali

Oman	Hussein al Abri

Palestine	Adania Shibli Ala Hlehel Najwan Darwish

Saudi Arabia	Abdullah Thabit Mohammad Hassan Alwan Yahya Amqassim

Sudan	Mansour El Souwaim

Syria	Dima Wannous Rosa Yassin Hassan Samar Yezbek

Tunisia	Kamel Riahi

USA	Randa Jarrar

Yemen	Wajdi al-Ahdal

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