Contact [email protected] Muhammad Aladdin Novelist www.linkedin.com/in/muhammad- Germany aladdin-0b5a9219 (LinkedIn) Summary Top Skills Literature A writer who is trying to live and to write good stuff! Script-writing Journalism Experience Languages Freelance Screenwriter English (Full Professional) Scriptwriter (Native or Bilingual) June 2005 - Present Honors-Awards A free lance script writer. Sawiris Cultural Award

Self-employed translator, editor, proof-reader Publications Freelance translator The Idol January 2001 - Present The Season of Migration to Arkedia in 2001- Translator, proofreader, and editor of The Spy Encyclopaedia, El A Well-trained Stray Mobdeoun Publishing house. Al A'araaf 2005- translator at Good News Cinema Magazine. The Secret Life of Citizin M 2010- for a brief time, translator at Alarabalyoum.com. 2015- Translated the whole first issue of the magazine of Muzmin, the Arabic version of the South African Chimurenga. 2015- Various websites from English to Arabic/Arabic to English. 2016- Free-lance translator at Gibran Translation Services Company. English to Arabic/Arabic to English.

Writer and Editor; Self-Empoyed Novelist January 2000 - Present is (محمـد علاء الديـن:Muhammad Aladdin, also known as Alaa Eddin (Arabic an Egyptian novelist, short story writer, and script writer. He is one of the most outstanding of the new rising generation of young Egyptian writers, having had his first collection of short stories published in 2003. He is the author, so far, of five novels—The Gospel According to Adam, The Twenty-Second Day, The Idol (Novel), and The Foot (Novel), and A Well-trained Stray—and three short story collections—The Other Shore (Short-stories collection), The Secret Life

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of Citizen M, and Young Lover, New Lover, his works are sophisticated and often dark observations of a society mired in secrets and reticence.

As one of his generation’s noted young writers in both and the Arab countries, Aladdin has gained acclamation for his first novel published The in January 2006. The work has (إنجيل آدم:Gospel According to Adam (Arabic been hailed by writers like Bahaa Taher and Sonallah Ibrahim to be among the best of a promising new crop. That novel breaks the conventional format of the novel, consisting as it does of a single 60-page-long paragraph that is written in a stream of consciousness style. A reviewer for Al-Ahram's literary page on May 10, 2006 stated that The Gospel According to Adam reflects “a social reality that has lost all certainties". In his book, "The Arab Novel and the Quest for Renovation" published by Dubi Althaqafia Magazine in May 2011, the famous Moroccan writer and critic Mohammed Berrada sites it as one of 5 novels has renovated the Arab novel.

He was chosen as one of the most important Egyptian writers in the new millennium by the Egyptian magazine Akhbar Al-Adab in 2011, and he's one of Six Egyptian writers you don't know but you should as the writer Pauls Toutonghi said in The millions.com.

AlManassa Columnist February 2017 - October 2017 (9 months) Cairo

on my reflection of Egypt.

bel-ahmar.net Columnist May 2017 - July 2017 (3 months) Cairo

RNW Media Columnist April 2016 - January 2017 (10 months) Cairo

Writing my reflection on Egyptian life, in various aspects.

The New Arab (Al-Araby Al-Jadeed) Columnist January 2016 - March 2016 (3 months) Page 2 of 4

Of life and many other things

كسرة - Kasra Columnist March 2015 - November 2015 (9 months) Cairo

Writing about my own travels, reflections on the places I’ve visited.

Dar Al Shorouk Columnist September 2014 - November 2014 (3 months) Cairo

Writing weekly for Ash- Shorouk leading Egyptian newspaper, reflections on life, especially in Egypt.

Mecca Newspaper Columnist January 2014 - April 2014 (4 months) Writing about my own travels, reflections on the places I’ve visited.

Basim Studio Comics Scriptwriter January 2005 - January 2014 (9 years 1 month) Created and writing the comic character Sa'adan the Naughty Seagull. Basim Magazine has shut down in 2014.

Film Clinic Scripts' Adviser June 2005 - June 2007 (2 years 1 month) Reading, evaluating, and script-doctoring scripts being submitted or bought by the FlimClinic production House, considered a major producing company in MENA region.

MBC Network MBC- Cairo Office January 2001 - January 2002 (1 year 1 month) The Middle East Broadcasting Center Group is the first private free-to-air satellite broadcasting company in the Arab World. It was launched in London in 1991 and later moved to its headquarters in Dubai in 2002.

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Writing the satirical show 'Ala Mas'oulitie (on my Account) for the prominent Syrian artist Dureed Laham, along with other shows. Writing the Arabic version of the famous show "Who Wanna Be A Millionaire".

Education

Helwan University Cairo Licentiate degree, Journalism · (1997 - 2001)

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