Wiam El-Tamami

Wiam El-Tamami is an Egyptian writer, translator, and editor who has spent the last twenty years moving between different cultures and communities across the Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia, and North America. She writes fiction and narrative nonfiction. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Paris Review, Granta, Ploughshares, AGNI, Literary Hub, Freeman’s, ArabLit, and The Common, along with several anthologies. She received the 2011 Harvill Secker Translation Prize, was shortlisted for the 2023 CRAFT Nonfiction Award, and was a finalist for the 2023 Disquiet International Prize. Her work also received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2024 and won third place in the 2026 Azhar Writing Prize. She is an editor-at-large at The Avery Review, and is currently based between Cairo and Berlin. (updated 7/2026)