Mohamed al-Refai is an Egyptian critic, novelist and writer.Profile in IPAF website Since 1980, he has been writing for the Egyptian magazine Sabah al-Khair. He has also written a number of books, radio plays, television series, and film scripts. Al-Refai's novel Nocturnal Creatures of Sadness was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2012.
Al-Refai lives and works in Cairo.
Selected works
Books Palestine in Egyptian Theatre Experiments in Arab Theatre
Radio plays A Journey in Olden Times Paradise Lost Papers of the Barada River
TV series The Overcoat (based on Nikolai Gogol's short story) The White (based on a novel by Yusef Idriss) The Extoller of the Moon (based on the life of the Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi)
Film scripts The Case of Mr. Mungid Stolen Dreams
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