Nadia Wassef

Nadia Wassef is one of the owners of Diwan, Egypt's first modern bookstore, which she cofounded in 2002. She holds three master's degrees: an MA in creative writing from Birkbeck, University of London, an MA in social anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and an MA in English and comparative literature from the American University in Cairo. Before cofounding Diwan, she worked in research and advocacy for the Female Genital Mutilation Task...See more

Nadia Wassef is one of the owners of Diwan, Egypt's first modern bookstore, which she cofounded in 2002. She holds three master's degrees: an MA in creative writing from Birkbeck, University of London, an MA in social anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and an MA in English and comparative literature from the American University in Cairo. Before cofounding Diwan, she worked in research and advocacy for the Female Genital Mutilation Task Force and the Women and Memory Forum. She was featured on the Forbes Middle East list of the two hundred most powerful Arab women in the Middle East in 2014, 2015, and 2016, and her work has been covered in Time , Monocle , and Business Monthly , among other publications. She lives in London with her two daughters. See less