In 2018, she was named by The Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute as one of top influencers of Arabic public opinion. In 2016, she was called one of Foreign Policy 's Leading Global Thinkers. The novel has also been published in Turkish, Portuguese, Italian and German translations. For its dystopian representation of injustice, torture and corruption, it has been compared by the New York Times to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Trial by Franz Kafka. In 2017, this satirical novel won the English PEN Translation Award. Her debut novel Al-Tabuur ( The Queue) was first published by Dar al-Tanweer in 2013, and Melville House published an English translation by Elisabeth Jaquette in 2016. Her sociological examination of police violence in Egypt, Temptation of Absolute Power, won the Ahmed Bahaa-Eddin Award in 2009. Īs a writer, Abdel Aziz gained second place for her short stories in the 2008 Sawiris Cultural Award, and a 2008 award from the General Organisation for Cultural Palaces. She works for the General Secretariat of Mental Health in Egypt's Ministry of Health and the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture. in neuropsychiatry, and a diploma in sociology. Life and career īorn in Cairo, Abdel Aziz holds a B.A.
For her literary and nonfiction work, she was awarded the Sawiris Cultural Award and other distinctions. She writes in Arabic, and her novels The Queue and Here Is A Body were published in English. She lives in Cairo and is a weekly columnist for Egypt's al-Shorouk newspaper. Egyptian writer, psychiatrist, visual artist and human rights activistīasma Abdel Aziz ( Arabic: بسمة عبد العزيز, born 1976 in Cairo, Egypt) is an Egyptian writer, psychiatrist, visual artist and human rights activist, nicknamed 'the rebel'.
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