Ahmed Alaidy

Ahmed Alaidy
Born	(1974-12-24) December 24, 1974 Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Occupation	Novelist, Screenwriter, Freelance writer, Comic writer, Poet
Literary movement	Minimalism, Postmodern

Ahmed Alaidy, أحمد العايدي Template:Ar icon, is an Egyptian novelist, born on December 24, 1974. He is the author of the novel Being Abbas El Abd (2006), (An Takoun Abbas El Abd) (2003), أن تكون عباس العبد Template:Ar icon. He studied marketing at Cairo University, and has worked as a scriptwriter on quiz shows and for the cinema, and as a writer of satirical stories for young people and a book designer. He wrote a political comic strip, and poems for an Egyptian opposition weekly newspaper al-Dostour, الدستور المصرية Template:Ar icon. Alaidy has participated in international writers’ programs at Iowa University and at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has previously published a long short story.

Classified as a Minimalist writer, and a student of the famous American novelist Chuck Palahniuk which he had received an intensive course in minimalism writing through the Internet.

Writings

• worked in as script writer for the Arabic version of the television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and as a member of the comedy workshop at MBC channel. 2001-02
• An takoun Abbas El Abd (A Novel) Merit Publishing house (2003/2007/2009), BQFP (2012/2013), Al-Karma Publishers (2014). Translated into : English (2006/2008/2009), Dutch (2008), Italian (2009), Turkish (2009), French (2010), Danish (2011), Russian (2013), and Swedish (2015).
• children comics for Basem magazine. 2006
• political comic strips (Booka wa Sokomonnous) for Al-dostour weekly newspaper.2005-2006
• poems for Al-dostour weekly newspaper. 2006-07-08
• Freelance writer at the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
• Co-wrote the Screenplay of the movie Eltorbeeni with Mohamed Hefzy, directed by : Ahmed Medhat, 2007. (Adapted from Rain Man )
• Script doctoring the Blockbuster Movie Keda Reda with his other five co-writers in Script (Movie workshop), Keda Reda directed by : Ahmed Nader Galal Starring: Ahmed Helmy 2007.
• Screenplay of the short movie Love in the time of Gum, directed by Ibrahim Abla 2008.
• Al eshq al sadi;(The Sadistic Love) (collection of poems) Merit Publishing house | 2009, Al-Karma Publishers | 2014.
• Satire comic strips (Adventures of Karee) for Al-shorouk newspaper July 2009.

Prizes

• Being Abbas El Abd was awarded the Sawiris Foundation's 2nd Prize in Egyptian Literature in 2006.

External links

• An article about Being Abbas El abd in (The complete review)
• Fictions of the mind (An Article in Al Ahram weekly)
• Being in the Conditional (Book review) Panipal Magazine
• Tango in a mine field (Article) signandsight
• Article from lettera22 Template:It icon