Sayed Mahmoud

Journalist and poet. He is editor-in-chief of al-Qahira, a newspaper produced by the Egyptian Ministry of Education, and has also served as literary editor for numerous publications such as the Egyptian al-Ahram organization as well as for several independent newspapers. He has also worked as a literary editor and freelance correspondent for many Arabic language news outlets abroad, such as al-Hayat (London), al-Akhbar (Beirut) and Reuters Press Agency. In 2001, he was awarded First Prize for the “best news coverage” by the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate. He was a jury member for the Sawiris Literary Award and for the Arab Journalist Award in Dubai (in the cultural journalism category). In 2013, a special tribute was paid to him by the Egyptian Writers Conference on Media Professionals. He has also written the screenplays for a number of documentary films and he is a founding member of the Arab Group for Cultural Policies. Among his published works are the Shadow Recitation (poetry, 2014), To Question is Seditious (co-authored with the Bahraini poet Qassem Haddad) and A New Page: The Literary Forum for Arab Youth (2005).