Writers from Cairo

Egyptian writer (1901_2006)

Al-Maqrīzī (, full name '''Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-'Abbās Aḥmad ibn 'Alī ibn 'Abd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad al-Maqrīzī''', ; 1364–1442) was a medieval Egyptian historian and biographer during the Mamluk era, known for his interest in the Fatimid era, and the earlier periods of Egyptian history. He is recognized as the most influential historian of premodern Egypt.

Egyptian-American writer and professor

French writer and poet (1912–1991)

Sufi poet

essayist, penwoman, conspiracy theorist (1933-)

Egyptian writer, professor, and human rights activist (1945–1992)

Egyptian Islamic scholar and historian (1753–1825)

Egyptian poet and physician (1892–1955)

Egyptian writer (1894–1973)

Egyptian journalist

Egyptian novelist

Egyptian writer and novelist (1919–1990)

historian

French physician, poet and translator (1868–1949)

Armenian poet (1878–1945)

Egyptian poet and writer (1889-1949)

Egyptian writer (1911-1997)

British writer

Egyptian poet (1898–1953)

Egyptian writer

Egyptian journalist

Egyptian poet

Egyptian poet and translator

Egyptian journalist

French novelist

Ali bin Mahammad Aydamir or ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Jildakī (Egyptian Arabic: عز الدين الجلدكي; Coptic: Ⲉⲍ ⲉⲗⲇⲓⲛ ⲉⲗϫⲗⲇⲕⲓ), also written al-Jaldakī (d. 1342 CE / 743 AH) was an Egyptian alchemist from the 14th century Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. A scientist and author who specialized in chemistry and lived in the eighth century AH. He copied entire paragraphs from the works of Jabir bin Hayyan, Abu Bakr al-Razi, Ibn Arfa` Ras, Abu al-Qasim al-Iraqi, and others, thus serving the history of chemistry in Islam, as he recorded in his works much of what had disappeared from the books of his predecessors. Haji

British screenwriter

Iraqi physician and poet

Egyptian-Canadian novelist & journalist (1982-)

Egyptian director and screenwriter

Egyptian Arabic grammarian and scholar

Egyptian-born Armenian historian (1928–1988)

Egyptian theologian

French novelist

Egyptian writer (1897–1959)

Egyptian playwright (1936-2015)

Egyptian-Canadian novelist, translator, film critic and academic

Egyptian journalist

Egyptian historian

French journalist and author (1931-2018)

Egyptian novelist (1955–2017)

Israeli poet, writer, lecturer, sociologist and peace researcher (born 1933)

film critic (1943–2017)

German-American historian, economist

Egyptian writer

Egyptian orientalist (1759–1831)

Egyptian blogger and human rights activist

Egyptian writer (1943-2014)

French journalist and diplomat (1926–2015)

Egyptian royal and writer (1988–1955)

Egyptian screenwriter

Egyptian film director (1934-2001)