Soheir Masadfa also written Mosadfa or Soheir El Masadfa is an Egyptian poet, novelist, translator and scholar, and has a PhD in Philosophy from Moscow University. She was editor-in-chief of the Kitabat Jadidah (New Writing), a series of
books published by General Egyptian Book Organisation (GEBO), and was director of GEBO's series publishing prize winning books in translation into Arabic.
She has published two collections of her own poetry, in 1997 and 1999. She has since published several novels. Her debut novel Lahwu al-Abalisah in 2003 (reprinted 2005 and 2014) won the Egyptian Writers' Union award for Best Novel for 2005, her second novel, Miss Egypt, came out in 2008 (reprinted 2014), and her third one Rihlat al-Thibaa in 2013 (reprinted in 2014). In 2015 her novel Bayad Sakhen was published by Almasriyya Allubnaniya followed in 2017 by the novel Laánat Meet Rahina. In 2019 Yawm al Thabat al alamy appeared.
She has also translated children's stories from Russian into Arabic, including stories by Pushkin and many other
children's stories, folktales and fairytales by Alexander Afanasyev.
