Ahmed Alaidy
Ahmed Alaidy is an Egyptian novelist, scriptwriter, Director, poet, editor, and Comics Writer born on December 24, 1974. He is the author of the novel Being Abbas El Abd,, أن تكون عباس العبد. He studied marketing at Cairo University, and has worked as a scriptwriter on quiz shows and for the cinema, and as a writer of satirical stories for young people and a book designer. He wrote a political comic strip, and poems for an Egyptian opposition weekly newspaper al-Dostour, الدستور المصرية. Alaidy has participated in international writers’ programs at Iowa University and at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has previously published a long short story.
Classified as a Minimalist writer, and a student of the famous American novelist Chuck Palahniuk which he had received an intensive course in minimalism writing through the Internet.
Directing
Directing NETFLIX's featurette ما وراء القصة 2020.Writings
- worked in as script writer for the Arabic version of the television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and as a member of the comedy workshop at MBC channel. 2001-02
- An takoun Abbas El Abd,, . Translated into : English, Dutch, Italian, Turkish, French, Danish, Russian, and Swedish.
- children comics for Basem magazine. 2006
- political comic strips for Al-dostour weekly newspaper.2005-2006
- poems for Al-dostour weekly newspaper. 2006-07-08
- Freelance writer at the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
- Co-wrote the Screenplay of the movie El Torbini with Mohamed Hefzy, directed by : Ahmed Medhat, 2007.
- Script doctoring the Blockbuster Movie Keda Reda with his other five co-writers in Script, Keda Reda directed by : Ahmed Nader Galal Starring: Ahmed Helmy 2007.
- Screenplay of the short movie Love in the time of Gum, directed by Ibrahim Abla 2008.
- Al eshq al sadi; | 2009, | 2014.
- Satire comic strips for Al-shorouk newspaper July 2009.