Mohamed Rafie

Mohamed Ali Rafie (Arabic: محمد علي رفيع) is an Egyptian novelist, screenwriter and writer, born in Al-Daher neighborhood in Cairo in 1972. He has a number of printed story collections, the most famous of which are Honey Noun and The Possessiveness of Water. He wrote his first book in collaboration with two friends, entitled “The Path of the Pavements”. Later, he wrote a collection of short stories entitled “Ibn Bahr” and a few years later another collection of short stories entitled “The Pomp of Water”. He formed many literary groups with his writer friends.

He holds a bachelor's degree in computers from the Faculty of Science from Suez Canal University, but he was inclined to theatre, so he established a theater group with his friends in the college. Then he turned to writing after several workshops and seminars he attended and studied at the Academy of Modern Film Technology of Arts, script department until he graduated in 2003.