Basma Abdel Aziz
Egyptian writer, psychiatrist, visual artist and human rights activist
- Born
- 1976, Cairo
Basma Abdel Aziz is an Egyptian writer, psychiatrist, visual artist and human rights activist, nicknamed 'the rebel'. She lives in Cairo and is a weekly columnist for Egypt's al-Shorouk newspaper. She writes in Arabic, and her novels The Queue and Here Is A Body were published in English. For her literary and nonfiction work, she was awarded the Sawiris Cultural Award and other distinctions.
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