Fatima Naoot

She is also a columnist and has written articles for Nesf El Donya, Al-Masry Al-Youm, and Youm7. Prior to her literary career, Naoot worked as an architect for 10 years as she was a graduate of Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University. In 2016, Naoot was sentenced to three years in prison for posting a message on Facebook critical of the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Islamic feast Eid al-Adha. On appeal, her sentence was reduced to six months.

• Name — Fatima Naoot • Native Name — فاطمة ناعوت • Birth Name — Fatima Hasan Naoot • Born — 18 September 1964 • Birthplace — Cairo, Egypt • Occupation — Poet, translator, architect, and journalist at AlMasry Alyoum newspaper • Language — Egyptian Arabic • Education — Ain Shams University • Genre — Poetry,Novel,Journalism, Thinking, Translation • Notable Works — A Bottle of Glue • Partner — Nabil Shehata • Children — Mazen, Omar

Fatima Sayyid Muhammad Hasan Naoot was born on 18 September 1964 in Cairo, Egypt. She earned a degree in architecture from the Faculty of Engineering of Ain Shams University in Cairo in 1987. Following her graduation, she worked as an architect for Sabbour Consultants for 10 years.

Naoot left her architecture career in the late 1990s and started writing poetry, translating, and working as a journalist. She is the chief editor of the literary magazine Qaws Qazah (The Rainbow) and writes articles and weekly columns for Egyptian and Arab magazines and newspapers, including Nesf El Donya, Al-Masry Al-Youm, Youm7, Al-Youm Al-Sabaa, and the UAE news website. Naoot has written 18 books, including seven collections of poetry. She has also written essays and literary criticism and translated many novels and anthologies from English into Arabic. In the 2000s, Naoot wrote multiple volumes of poetry. Her fifth volume, A Bottle of Glue, won first prize for Arabic literature at the 2006 Hong Kong Literary Festival and was later translated into English and Chinese. She has also translated the short stories of Virginia Woolf and John Ravenscroft, works by Philip Roth, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chinua Achebe, and a volume of American and English poetry. Naoot has attended numerous poetry festivals, including the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Moutanabbi International Poetry Festival in Zurich, and in 2007, the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam.

Fatima Naoot is recorded as architect, writer, journalist, poet and human rights defender.