Shady Lewis Botros

Shady Lewis Botros (born 1978) is an Egyptian novelist and journalist whose writing centers on cultural and political intersections within and beyond the Arab world. He lives in London, where he spent many years employed by the National Health Service and local authority housing departments, working with homeless people and patients with complex needs. He has published three novels to date, beginning with The Lord’s Ways (2018). His second novel, On the Greenwich Meridian (2020) was translated into French and German. His third is Brief History of Genesis and East Cairo (2021). His fiction engages with the social history of Coptic Christians and trajectories of migration from Egypt to the West.