Ahmed Alaidy, أحمد العايدي , is an Egyptian novelist, scriptwriter, Director, poet, editor, and Comics Writer born on December 24, 1974. He is the author of the novel Being Abbas El Abd (2006), (

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) (2003), أن تكون عباس العبد . 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

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, الدستور المصرية . Alaidy has participated in international writers’ programs at

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and at

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. He has previously published a long short story. Classified as a Minimalist writer, and a student of the famous American novelist

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which he had received an intensive course in minimalism writing through the Internet.

Directing

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ما وراء القصة 2020 (in Arabic).

Writings

* worked in as script writer for the Arabic version of the television game show

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, and as a member of the comedy workshop at

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. 2001-02 *

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(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

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magazine. 2006 * political comic strips (Booka wa Sokomonnous) for

Al-dostour Ad-Dustour or Al-Dustour ( ar, الدستور, link=no "The Constitution") may refer to: * ''Al-Dustour'' (Egypt), an Egyptian newspaper * ''Ad-Dustour'' (Jordan), a Jordanian newspaper {{Disambig ...

weekly newspaper.2005-2006 * poems for Al-dostour weekly newspaper. 2006-07-08 * Freelance writer at the German newspaper

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. * Co-wrote the Screenplay of the movie

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with

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, directed by :

Ahmed Medhat Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...

, 2007. (Adapted from

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) * Script doctoring the Blockbuster Movie

Keda Reda Keda Reda is an Egyptian romantic comedy film starring Ahmed Helmy, Menna Shalabi. It has a very simple story about 3 identical triplets. Keda Reda stars comedian Ahmed Helmy as Semsem (an introvert), Bibo (a soccer fan) and Prince (a 1900s c ...

with his other five co-writers in Script (Movie workshop),

directed by :

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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

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newspaper July 2009.

Prizes

* ''Being Abbas El Abd'' was awarded the

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's 2nd Prize in Egyptian Literature in 2006.

References

External links

An article about ''Being Abbas El abd'' in (The complete review)

''Being in the Conditional'' (Book review) Panipal Magazine

Article from ''lettera22''
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