Nora Nagi

Nora Nagi (born 1987 in Tanta, Egypt) is an Egyptian novelist and journalist who has edited women's-interest pages for several Egyptian and Arab newspapers and websites. Her novels include Bana (2014), Al-Jedar/The Wall (2016), Banat al-Basha/The Pasha's Daughters (2017), and Atyaf Kamilia/Spectres of Camelia (2020, winner of the Yahya Haqqi Award), followed by Sanawat al-Jari fi al-Makan (2022) and Bayt al-Jazz (2025). Her short-story collection Mithl al-Aflam al-Sadhija won Egypt's State Encouragement Award for Literature in 2023.