Ayman Ragab Taher

Ayman Ragab Taher is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer, born in Asyut, Egypt, in 1973. He graduated from the Arabic department of the Education College, Asyut University, in 1996, and works as a principal lecturer at the General Authority for Culture Palaces in Cairo. He has published three short story collections, a play, and 16 novels. These include the novels The Drought (2015) which won the Egyptian State Incentive Prize in 2017, and The Cameleers (2020), winner of the Katara Prize for the Arabic Novel, awarded by Qatar in 2021. In 2011, Taher also won two Egyptian prizes for the short story: the Akhbar Al-Adab and Al-Masri Prize and the Al-Qusayyir Prize for Literary Creativity.