Sayed Gouda

Sayed Gouda is an Egyptian poet and novelist. He was born in 1968 in Cairo and he has been living in Hong Kong since 1992. He majored in the Chinese language. Sayed Gouda won a first prize of poetry in 1990 before he migrated to Hong Kong. He has three books of poetry in the Arabic language and a novel in the English language called "Once Upon a Time in Cairo". He has translated hundreds of poems from and into Arabic, Chinese, and English. Currently he is the editor of a tri-lingual literary website called Arabic Nadwah. Sayed Gouda organizes a monthly literary salon in Hong Kong since April 2004. He runs a publication house in Hong Kong mainly to publish Arabic literature translated into English and Chinese.

Works

*The Smoke of Love – a book of Arabic poetry published in Cairo in 1990
*The Sad Questions of Cassandra – a book of Arabic poetry published in Cairo in 2005
*Between a Broken Dream and Hope – a book of Arabic poetry published in Cairo in 2005
*Once Upon a Time in Cairo – English novel published in Hong Kong in 2006
*Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry translated in English and Chinese
*Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry translated in Arabic
*Many of his poems and articles have been published in many newspapers, magazines, and websites in the Arab world as well as Hong Kong and China. He has been invited to participate in many international literary festivals around the world.