Safa Abdel Al Moneim

She also has several studies published in various newspapers and magazines. Her most recent published novel is My Granny Apple.

• Name — Safa Abdel Moneim • Birth Name — 27 December 1960 • Birthplace — Cairo, Egypt • Education — Ain Shams University (BA) • Occupation — Writer, novelist, storyteller, researcher • Years Active — 1983– present

Safa Abdel Moneim Mahmoud Zayed was born on 27 December 1960 in Cairo. She graduated in 1986 from Al Helmeya High School after which she earned a B.A. in education from Ain-Shams University. Safa Abdel Moneim's literary career began by reading her short stories in a youth centre in Shubra Al Kheima until publishing her very first short story in the Qalyoubia newspapers. she was awarded in a national short story competition for youth centres in 1983. Her first short story collection 'Hikayat Al'lail' was published in 1984, in which five stories were published in a joint-collection and discussed in several seminars in cultural and youth centers. She lists Anton Chekhov's story 'The Death of a Government Clerk' and Yusuf Idris' 'A Glance' as her most significant literary influencers. Safa Adel Moneim started her cultural when she and her late husband, poet and writer, Magdi Al-Gabri held weekly symposiums to discuss and criticize works of literature and poetry. These symposiums lasted from 1990 until her in 1998. Safa Abdel Moniem has been working as a school principal since 2009. She documented her career as a school principal in her novel 'Journals of a School Principal' Abdel Moneim holds several memberships in various cultural, literary and educational institutions and unions, as she is a member of the Writers Union of Egypt and Cairo Atelier. She is also a lecturer at the General Authority for Cultural Palaces, a member of the Egyptian Society for folk Literature and the International Pen Club.

Sources: • "Granny Apple" (Si'tty Tufaha), 2020 • "Journals of A School Principal" (Yawmiyat Mudairat Madrasa), 2020 • "A Peacock Above The Tree" (Fawq Al Shajarah Tawoo's), 2020 • "The Edge of Soul" (original title: Hafat Al Roul), 2019 • "Merit Filter" (original title: Merit Asfar), 2009 • "A Female Artist's Home" (Bait Fannana), 2009 • "He Called Her "Innana" (Qala Laha Ya Innana), 2008 • "Whom She Saw" (original title: Al'leti Ra'at), 2008 • "Like a Witch" (Mithla Sahira), 2008 • "The Wind of Simoom" (original title: Rih Al Sumoom), 2003 • "Within the Spirit's Beauty", 2001

Source: • "Children Songs Encyclopaedia", 2008 • "Describing Egypt Now Encyclopaedia", 2008 (contributing)