Ahmed Alaidy

Infobox Writer


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name = Ahmed Alaidy
birthdate = Birth date and age|1974|12|24|mf=y
birthplace = Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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occupation = Novelist, Screenwriter, Freelance writer, Comic writer, Poet
movement = Minimalism, Postmodern

Ahmed Alaidy , [http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A أحمد العايدي] 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 ar icon. He is studying 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, [http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9جريدة الدستور المصرية] ar icon. Alaidy has participated in international writers’ programs at Iowa University [http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/WRIT/WRITmain2004.html] and at Hong Kong Baptist University [http://iww.hkbu.edu.hk/index.php?fl=writers_vw_2005] . He has previously published a long short story.

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) [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/789/cu4.htm Merit Publishing house] 2003, 2007. Translated into (English) as Being Abbas El Abd by : Humphrey Davies , AUC Press 2006. Translated into (Dutch) as Ik ben Abbaas al-Abd by : Djûke Poppinga and Richard van Leeuwen , de geus 2008.
* children comics for Basem magazine. 2006
* political comic strips 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.

Prizes

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

External links

* [http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/egypt/alaidya.htm An article about "Being Abbas El abd" in (The complete review)] en icon
* [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/676/cu4.htm Fictions of the mind (An Article in Al Ahram weekly)] en icon
* [http://www.banipal.co.uk/book_reviews/review.php?reviewid=34 "Being in the Conditional" (Book review) Panipal Magazine ] en icon
* [http://www.signandsight.com/features/584.html "Tango in a mine field" (Article) signandsight ] en icon
* [http://www.lettera22.it/showart.php?id=5972&rubrica=120 Article from "lettera22" ] it icon