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Ahmed Alaidy Author

Ahmed Alaidy was born in 1974, studied marketing at Cairo University, and has worked as a scriptwriter on quiz shows and for the cinema, and as a book designer. He has written satirical stories for young people and currently writes a political comic strip for an Egyptian weekly. Alaidy has participated in international writers' programs at The University of Iowa and Hong Kong Baptist University. He has previously published a long short story; Being Abbas el Abd is his first novel.