Noha Daoud

Noha Dawoud (نهى داود) is an Egyptian crime and mystery novelist, born in London. She studied engineering at Cairo University and worked for years as a telecommunications and electronics engineer before turning to writing full-time; she later earned a diploma in creative writing from Wesleyan University.

She began publishing in the late 2010s and has become known as one of the first women in Egypt and the wider Arab world to specialize in detective fiction, citing Agatha Christie as an early influence.

Her novels — including "Crime in the Hotel," "Cinema Scene," "Reda," "Crime on a Rainy Night," "The Crime of Mrs. H," "Crime of Building 47," and "Blood on the Red Carpet" — combine criminal investigation with social and psychological drama, and are published in Egypt by Dar El Masriah El Lubnaniah (the Egyptian Lebanese House).