Ahmed Mourad

Mourad is the screenwriter of The Originals (Arabic: الأصليين), also directed by Marwan Hamed. Mourad was initially going to write it as a novel before he decided to make it as a theatrical film. However, The film was published on June 25, 2017 across Egypt to a mixed critical reception from audiences and critics alike.

Then the novel was made into a TV show during the month of Ramadan of 2012 titled: Vertigo (Arabic: فيرتيجو) starring Hend Sabry. The novel won the Mediterranean award in 2013 from Italy.

Mourad's breakthrough novel, The Blue Elephant (Arabic: الفيل الأزرق) published in October, 2012, which became the best-selling novel in Cairo International Book Fair in 2013. A year later, it was shortlisted for the Arabic Booker award in 2014.

The novel was translated into 3 languages by different publishing houses, in 2011. It was translated into English by Bloomsbury, Italian by Marsilio, and French by Groupe Flammarion.

Mourad published his second novel, Diamond Dust (Arabic: تراب الماس) in Feb, 2010, which was translated into Italian by Marsilio Editore. It's in the process of being made into a movie in 2018 with the same name, Turab el Mass.

Mourad's work came in the year of 2007, when he wrote his first novel, Virtego (Arabic: فيرتيجو), published in the same year by Dar Merit, A tense thriller that reveals contemporary Egypt and Cairo's seedy nightlife, It tells the story of a photographer in a high-class Cairo nightclub who witnesses his friend being murdered in a fight between rival young businessmen.

Ahmed Mourad (Arabic: أحمد مراد ‎; born February 14, 1978) is an Egyptian author and screenwriter of fiction and non-fiction.

Another two significant works worth mention are the novel, 1919, published in 2014 and The Land of God (Arabic: أرض الإله), published in 2015.