Mansoura Ez Eldin was born in Egypt in 1976. Her collection
Dhaw’a Muhtaz (Shaken Light) was published in Cairo in 2001. Her successful debut novel
Maryam’s Mazewas was published by the award-winning Merit publishers in 2004, with the English edition published by AUC Press, Cairo. She has worked in Egyptian television, and presently runs the book review section of the renowned Egyptian literary magazine
Akhbar al-Adab (Literature News). Her second novel
Beyond Paradise was shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize 2010.
