Mohamed al-Refai

Mohamed al-Refai is an Egyptian critic, novelist and writer. 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