Life and work
About Mustafa Awad
Mustafa Awad is an Egyptian writer born on 1 January 1977 and currently based in Tunisia. He works across the novel and short-story forms.
His novel Walah: Alif Lam Ra draws on the story of Joseph as it appears in religious traditions and popular memory, reshaping familiar characters, events, and destinies into an alternative imaginative narrative.
Awad describes reading as the primary source of creative development, followed by sustained writing practice and commitment to a serious literary project. His influences span modern Arabic fiction and world literature.
