Basma Abdel Aziz (Arabic: بسمة عبد العزيز, born 1976 in Cairo, Egypt) is an Egyptian writer, psychiatrist, visual artist and human rights activist, nicknamed 'the rebel'. She lives in Cairo and is a weekly columnist for Egypt's ''al-Shorouk'' newspaper. She writes in Arabic, and her novels ''The Queue'' and ''Here Is A Body'' were published in English. For her literary and nonfiction work, she was awarded the Sawiris Cultural Award and other distinctions.
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