Mansoura Ez Eldin

Mansoura Ez-Eldin is an Egyptian award-winning author of ten books. Her book Walks in Shanghai received the Ibn Battuta Prize for travel literature 2021, her novel Emerald Mountain received the award of the best Arabic novel in 2014 from Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF). In 2009, she was selected for the Beirut39, as one of the 39 best Arab authors below the age of 40. Her writing has appeared, among other places, in Granta, New York Times, A Public Space and The Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Ez-Eldin is an Honorary Fellow in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.