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Ahmed Mourad
Ahmed Mourad (born February 14, 1978, in Cairo) is an Egyptian novelist and screenwriter. He studied cinematography at Cairo's Higher Institute of Cinema, graduating in 2001, and spent nearly a decade as one of President Hosni Mubarak's personal photographers before his first novel, Vertigo, was published in 2007. His 2012 novel The Blue Elephant (الفيل الأزرق) was the best-selling title at the Cairo International Book Fair in 2013 and was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Ficti...