Khaled Al Khamissi is an Egyptian novelist, writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

, producer and director. He is currently based in Cairo, Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

 and is a contributing journalist to Al Shorouk newspaper

Al-Shorouk

Al-Shorouk, Shorouk News or Al-Shuruq is a prominent Arabic newspaper published in Egypt and several other Arabic nations. It is a daily independent newspaper, covering mainly politics, militant affairs and sport...

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He has written two novels; Taxi

Taxi (book)

Taxi is a collection of 58 short stories by Khaled Al Khamissi, first published in December 2006.A book dedicated "to the life that lives in the words of poor people." Taxi is a journey of urban sociology in the Egyptian capital through the voices of taxi drivers...

 (2007) and Noah’s Ark (2009). His books have been translated into ten languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Malaysian, Korean, Polish, Greek and Chinese (pending).

Biography

Khaled Al Khamissi was born on the 27th of September, 1962 to Egyptian parents in Downtown, Cairo where he still resides. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in political science from Cairo University in 1984 and his masters are in foreign policy from The Sorbonne in 1987.