favourite writers

1. Osama Anwar Okasha

Osama Anwar Okasha was born on July 27, 1941 in Tanta, Egypt. Osama Anwar was a writer, known for Zeezinya (1997), The Alexandrian (2024) and Moga Harra (2013). Osama Anwar died on May 28, 2010 in Cairo, Egypt.

2. Jane Austen

Writer | Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775, to the local rector, Rev. George Austen (1731-1805), and Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827). She was the seventh of eight children. She had one older sister, Cassandra. In 1783 she went to Southampton to be taught by a relative, Mrs. Cawley, but was brought ...

3. John Michael Hayes

Writer | Rear Window

Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, John Michael Hayes began his writing career as a newspaper reporter. Following service with the US Army during WWII, he moved to California where he wrote for such radio dramas as Sam Spade and Inner Sanctum. Moving to film in 1952, he has amassed credits which ...

4. Ihsan Abdel Quddous

Writer | El wessada el khalia

Ihsan Abdel Quddous was born on January 1, 1919 in Egypt. He was a writer, known for El wessada el khalia (1957), El-Raqesah wa el-Tabbal (1984) and Abi foq al-Shagara (1969). He died on January 11, 1990 in Cairo, Egypt.

5. Fathiya Al Assal

Writer | Romanet Al Mizan

Fathiya Al Assal is known for Romanet Al Mizan (2008) and Heya Wa Al Mustaheel (1979).

6. Stephen King

Writer | Maximum Overdrive

Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital in Portland. His parents were Nellie Ruth (Pillsbury), who worked as a caregiver at a mental institute, and Donald Edwin King, a merchant seaman. His father was born under the surname "Pollock," but used the last name ...

7. Robert Riskin

Writer | It Happened One Night

Robert Riskin was born on March 30, 1897 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for It Happened One Night (1934), You Can't Take It with You (1938) and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). He was married to Fay Wray. He died on September 20, 1955 in Beverly Hills, Los ...

8. Samuel Hopkins Adams

Writer | It Happened One Night

Journalist, author, biographer and historian Samuel Hopkins Adams was born along the banks of Lake Erie at Dunkirk, NY, on 26 January 1871. His parents were Myron, a ministe3r, and Hester Rose Hopkins Adams, the daughter of a theologian. Adams attended Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, and upon ...

9. Wahid Hamed

Writer | Dail el samakah

Through more than 100 films, TV dramas, radio shows and theatrical productions, Egyptian screenwriter Wahid Hamed carved a place for himself in the Arab world by utilizing all the dramatic tools he could get his hands on since the 1970s and over 50 years. The success of his work was reflected in ...

10. Pete Docter

Writer | Up

Pete Docter is the Oscar®-winning director of "Monsters, Inc.," "Up," and "Inside Out," and Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios. He is currently directing Pixar's feature film "Soul" with producer Dana Murray, which is set to release June 19, 2020.

Starting at Pixar in 1990 as the ...

11. Naguib Mahfouz

Writer | El Fetewa

Naguib Mahfouz was born on December 11, 1911 in Cairo, Egypt. He was a writer, known for El Fetewa (1957), The Monster (1954) and Between Heaven and Earth (1959). He was married to Atiyyatallah Ibrahim. He died on August 30, 2006 in Cairo, Egypt.

12. William Shakespeare

Writer | The Tragedy of Macbeth

William Shakespeare's birthdate is assumed from his baptism on April 25. His father John was the son of a farmer who became a successful tradesman; his mother Mary Arden was gentry. He studied Latin works at Stratford Grammar School, leaving at about age 15. About this time his father suffered an ...

13. Tewfik El-Hakim

Writer | The Message

Tewfik El-Hakim, an Egyptian writer, is the son of a noble Turkish lady. He gave up studying law and turned to art and literature, and started writing plays from the early age. But his main works were written after his studies in France. Al-Hakim can be known as father of solid script writing and ...

14. Naguib Mahfouz

15. Azza Shalaby

Writer | Mafish Ghair Kedah

Azza Shalaby is known for Mafish Ghair Kedah (2006), Asrar el-banaat (2001) and Qanoun El Maraghi (2009).

16. Ingmar Bergman

Writer | Smultronstället

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born July 14, 1918, the son of a priest. The film and T.V. series, The Best Intentions (1992) is biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The film Sunday's Children (1992) depicts a bicycle journey with his father. In the miniseries Private Confessions (...

17. George Bernard Shaw

Writer | My Fair Lady

The Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, acquired a reputation as the greatest dramatist in the English language during the first half of the 20th Century for the plays he had written at the height of his creativity from "Mrs. ...

18. Mariam Naoum

Writer | Wahed-Sefr

Mariam Naoum, an Egyptian screenwriter, comes from a family of accomplished artists; her father, Nabil Naoum, is a novelist with several published works and her mother, Suzanne El Masry, a well-known jeweler of unique hand-made silver and bronze designs. Mariam studied economics in France then ...

19. Magdy Amin

Writer | Who Said?

Magdy Amin is known for Who Said? (2022), Take care of Zizi (2021) and Why not? (2020).

20. Bahgat Kamar

Writer | Akhtar ragol fil alam

Bahgat Kamar was born on July 27, 1937 in Egypt. He was a writer and actor, known for The Most Dangerous Man in the World (1967), El-Raqesah wa el-Tabbal (1984) and El mughammerun el talata (1966). He died on January 3, 1989 in Cairo, Egypt.

21. Abo El Seoud El Ebiary

Writer | Assir el aioun

Abo El Seoud El Ebiary is known for Assir el aioun (1949), El Millioner (1950) and Fail kheir (1953).

22. Ali El Zorkani

Writer | Min aina laka haza?

Ali El Zorkani is known for Min aina laka haza? (1952), Shati el zekriat (1955) and House No. 13 (1952).

23. Youssef Gohar

Writer | Amir el-Inteqam

Youssef Gohar is known for Amir el-Inteqam (1950), The Beloved Diva (1967) and Shati el zekriat (1955).

24. Wessam Soliman

Writer | Fatat el masnaa

Wessam Soliman is known for Factory Girl (2013), Fi shaket Masr El Gedeeda (2007) and Downtown Girls (2005). He was previously married to Mohamed Khan.

25. Shady Abdullah

Writer | Face and Back

Shady Abdullah is known for Face and Back (2022) and Why not? (2020).

26. Ahmed Badawy

Writer | Face and Back

Ahmed Badawy is an Egyptian scriptwriter who was born in Cairo on 19th October 1986. He studied journalism at faculty of mass communication, and graduated in 2007.But he started working as a professional movie reviewer in 2005 only at the age of 19. In 2009 he quit Journalism and writing reviews, ...

27. Lenine El-Ramli

Writer | El-Bedayah

Lenine El-Ramli was born on August 18, 1945 in Cairo, Egypt. He was a writer, known for The Beginning (1986), Al-irhabi (1994) and Ali Baih Mazhar wa 40 Harami (1985). He was married to Fatma El Maadoul. He died on February 7, 2020 in Cairo, Egypt.

28. Benj Pasek

Soundtrack | The Greatest Showman

Pasek helped compose Dear Evan Hansen with Steven Levenson and Justin Paul. He has worked with Justin in many other scenarios, and are known as Pasek and Paul. They are a songwriting duo and composing team for musical theater, films, and television. They've worked on A Christmas Story, Dogfight, ...

29. Billy Wilder

Writer | The Apartment

Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...

30. Reginald Rose

Writer | 12 Angry Men

Reginald Rose was born on December 10, 1920 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for 12 Angry Men (1957), Studio One (1948) and The Defenders (1961). He was married to Ellen McLaughlin and Barbara E. Langbart. He died on April 19, 2002 in Norwalk, ...

31. Badi Khayri

Writer | El azima

Badi Khayri is known for El azima (1939), Bawab el amara (1936) and Shi min la shi (1939).

Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31, 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1988 and is one of the more critically-acclaimed authors of the past 5 years. He is the author of 5 best-selling books, including "The Notebook" and "The Rescue". Eleven of his books, ...

35. Mostafa Moharram

Writer | Al Hob Fawk Hadabat Al Haram

Mostafa Moharram is known for Love Above the Pyramid Plateau (1985), El-Raqesah wa el-Tabbal (1984) and El-Wahl (1987).

36. Abul-Suood El-Ibyari

Writer | Fatma wa Marika wa Rachel

Abul-Suood El-Ibyari was born on November 9, 1910 in Cairo, Egypt. He was a writer, known for Fatma wa Marika wa Rachel (1949), Qalbi Dalili (1947) and Too Young for Love (1966). He died on March 17, 1969 in Egypt.

37. Abdel Rahim Kamal

Writer | The Treasure 2

Abdel Rahim Kamal was born on October 30, 1971 in Sohag , Egypt. He is a writer, known for The Treasure 2 (2019), The Treasure (2017) and Scarecrow (2019).

38. Ahmed Khaled Tawfik

Writer | Paranormal

Ahmed Khaled Tawfik Farrag was an Egyptian author and a physician, also known as Ahmed Khaled Tawfeek who wrote more than 200 paperbacks, in both Egyptian Arabic and Classical Arabic. He was the first contemporary writer of horror and science fiction in the Arabic speaking world and also the first ...

39. Tamer Habib

Writer | Sahar el layaly

It's said that the script is the essential element to make a great film, and when you have a great storytelling talent, this is when your films are best made. Tamer Habib is one of the most prolific screenwriters in Egypt and the Arab world. His innate writing talent cemented his name as one of ...

40. Charles Dickens

Writer | Great Expectations

Charles Dickens' father was a clerk at the Naval Pay Office, and because of this the family had to move from place to place: Plymouth, London, Chatham. It was a large family and despite hard work, his father couldn't earn enough money. In 1823 he was arrested for debt and Charles had to start ...

41. Abdel Hai Adib

Writer | Laylat El-Baby Doll

Abdel Hai Adib was born on December 22, 1928 in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, Egypt. He was a writer and composer, known for Laylat El-Baby Doll (2008), Ana el hareb (1962) and The Most Dangerous Man in the World (1967). He died on June 11, 2007 in Switzerland.

42. Mohamed Ezzedine

Writer | Al Kabeer

Mohamed Ezzedine is known for Al Kabeer (2010), World War III (2014) and Family Matter (2021).

43. Vance Gerry

Writer | The Great Mouse Detective

Vance Gerry was born on August 21, 1929 in Pasadena, California, USA. He was a writer, known for The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Hercules (1997) and Oliver & Company (1988). He was married to Mary. He died on March 5, 2005 in Pasadena, California, USA.

44. Ted Sears

Writer | Pinocchio

As his writing partner, Winston Hibler, once put it, "Perhaps Ted's greatest talent was his own unique brand of humor. It was warm, gentle humor; there was never a barb in it. And his was the key, to Ted's whole personality. He was the kindest man I ever knew. He lived with laughter and without ...

45. Erdman Penner

Writer | Sleeping Beauty

Erdman Penner was born on January 17, 1905 in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was a writer and director, known for Sleeping Beauty (1959), Cinderella (1950) and Lady and the Tramp (1955). He died on November 10, 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

46. I.A.L. Diamond

Writer | The Apartment

I.A.L. Diamond was born on June 27, 1920 in Ungheni, Romania [now Moldova]. He was a writer and producer, known for The Apartment (1960), Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970). He was married to Barbara Diamond. He died on April 21, 1988 in Beverly Hills, California...

47. Steve Conrad

Writer | Patriot

Steve Conrad was born in 1968 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Patriot (2015), Wonder (2017) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013).

48. Jeff Nathanson

Writer | Speed 2: Cruise Control

Jeff Nathanson was born on October 12, 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).

49. Mohamed Safaa Amer

Writer | El-Tayyeb wa el-Shares wa el-Gamilah

Mohamed Safaa Amer is known for El-Tayyeb wa el-Shares wa el-Gamilah (1994), El-Huroob ela el-Qimmah (1996) and Noshaterkom Al Afrah (1988).

50. El Sayed Bedeir

Writer | Khamsa share' al-habaib

El Sayed Bedeir is known for Khamsa share' al-habaib (1971), Salwa fi mahab el rih (1962) and Nesf azraa (1961).

51. Bachir El Dik

Writer | El-Tufan

Bachir El Dik was born in 1942 in Morocco. He is a writer and director, known for El-Tufan (1985), Sikkat Safar (1987) and El-Gasusah Hikmat Fahmi (1994).

52. Charles Chaplin

Writer | The Great Dictator

Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...

53. Mohamed Abu Youssef

Writer | Mabodet el gamahir

Mohamed Abu Youssef is known for The Beloved Diva (1967), Min ajal emraa (1959) and Mawed fe Elborg (1962).

54. Maha Elwazir

Writer | Finding Ola

Maha El-Wazir is an Egyptian Screenwriter, Script Doctor, Creative Producer, and Drama Professor with a marketing background. She recently founded her own creative lab for creating, and developing shorts and TV Series as well as nurturing new writing talents in Egypt and the Arab World.

El-Wazir is ...

55. Robert E. Sherwood

Writer | The Best Years of Our Lives

Robert E. Sherwood, a brilliant multifaceted writer, was born to Arthur Murray and Rosina Emmet Sherwood, educated at the Milton Academy (Massachusetts) and Harvard, and was wounded while serving with the Canadian Black Watch in WWI. His literary career started with jobs as movie critic at Vanity ...

56. Raafat El-Mihi

Writer | A Girl Called Apple

Raafat El-Mihi is known for A Girl Called Apple (1996), Oyun la tanam (1982) and For the Love of God (2001).

57. Yussef Issa

Writer | Shaytan Al Jazzirah

Yussef Issa is known for The Island's Devil (1978), Mawad gharam (1956) and El omr ayyam (1964).

58. Abdel Hamid Gouda

Writer | Al-risâlah

Abdel Hamid Gouda is known for The Message (1976), Al Qadisiyya (1981) and Fajr al islam (1971).

59. Youssef El Sebai

Writer | El-Lailah el-Akhirah

Youssef El Sebai is known for El-Lailah el-Akhirah (1963), Saladin (1963) and Sharia el hub (1958).

60. Melek Gençoglu

Writer | Medcezir

Melek Gençoglu was born on October 13, 1959 in Istanbul, Turkey. Melek is a writer, known for Ebb and Tide (2013), Heart of the City (2017) and Forbidden Love (2008). Melek has been married to Aykut Gençoglu since December 24, 1981. They have two children.