Mohamed al-Refai
# Mohamed al-Refai

Mohamed al-Refai is an Egyptian critic, novelist and writer. Since 1980, he has been writing for the Egyptian magazine Sabah al-Khair. He has also written a number of books, radio plays, television series, and film scripts. Al-Refai's novel Nocturnal Creatures of Sadness was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2012.

Al-Refai lives and works in Cairo.

## Selected works

### Books

* Palestine in Egyptian Theatre
* Experiments in Arab Theatre

### Radio plays

* A Journey in Olden Times
* Paradise Lost
* Papers of the Barada River

### TV series

* The Overcoat (based on Nikolai Gogol's short story)
* The White (based on a novel by Yusef Idriss)
* The Extoller of the Moon (based on the life of the Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi)

### Film scripts

* The Case of Mr. Mungid
* Stolen Dreams
