Wiam El-Tamami

Wiam El-Tamami is an Egyptian writer, translator, and editor whose work has been featured in publications such as The Paris Review, Granta, Ploughshares, Freeman’s, AGNI, Literary Hub, ArabLit, and The Common, as well as various anthologies, including Translating Dissent (Routledge, 2016) and Palestine is Everywhere (Silver Press, 2025). She received the 2011 Harvill Secker Translation Prize, was shortlisted for the 2023 CRAFT Nonfiction Award, was a finalist for the 2023 Disquiet International Prize, and was a runner-up for the 2025 Jules Chametzy Prize. She is an editor-at-large at The Avery Review, and is currently based between Cairo and Berlin. More at: wiameltamami.com (updated 10/2026)