Mansoura Ez-Eldin

is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer. Her works have been translated into more than ten languages. She is the author of three short story collections: ضوء مهتز [Shaken Light] (2001), نحو الجنون [Towards Madness] (2013) and مأوى الغياب [Shelter of Absence] (2018), and five novels: متاهة مريم [Mariam’s Maze] (2004), وراء الفردوس [Beyond Paradise] (2009),جبل الزمرد  [Emerald Mountain] (2014), أخيلة الظل [Shadow Specters] (2017) and بساتين البصرة [The Orchards of Basra] (2020). خطوات في شنغهاي[Walks in Shanghai: on the Meaning of Distance Between Egypt and China] won the 2021 Ibn Battuta Prize for travel literature; in 2014, the Sharjah International Book Fair nominated her  جبل الزمرد  [Emerald Mountain] as Best Arabic Novel. وراء الفردوس [Beyond Paradise] was IPAF-shortlisted in 2010. Her articles have been published in the New York Times, Granta, A Public Space, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). She is the managing editor of the cultural weekly Akhbar Al-Adab, and since 2003, its book review editor.