Fawziya Mahran

She died on November 2, 2019, at the age of 87. Many of her career companions participated in the burial ceremony in Sandbis village in Qaha city in Al-Qalyubiyya Governorate. She suffered for years due to replaced joint lead to a health crisis, which resulted in her being admitted to the intensive care unit at Badran hospital in Al-Duqa, which she remained in for four days. After her condition improved, she was moved to a normal room. She died at her home after leaving the hospital.

Fawziya supported women's issues in her writings as well as shedding light on many new writers. She became a member the general syndicate of the Egyptian Writers Union since 1988 and became a member of its administration since 2001 to 2003. She was also a member of the film selection jury at the Cairo International Film Festival for more than twenty years. During her journalistic career, she met leading thinkers and writers including Taha Hussein and Abbas Al-Aqqad.

Mahran's writing varied between fiction, theatre, criticism, journalism, intellectual writing, and translation. Her writing became popular when the Egyptian cinema produced one of her first novels in the film "Bait Al-Talibat", also known as "The Girls' Dormitory", directed by Ahmed Diaa Al-Din in 1976. The film was inspired by her arrival to the capital and her stay in the girls' dormitory while studying in Cairo's university. Her other literary works have also been turned into films and TV series. She is a pioneer in women's journalism in Egypt. Moreover, she is contributed to enriching the theatre in different parts of Egypt. She was one of the founders of Sabah Al-Khair magazine with the late Ahmed Bahaa El-Deen, who -and Salah Jahin- supported her in her early writing career. The first issue of the magazine was published in January 1956. In the early 1960s, she moved to 'Rose Al-Yosuf' magazine where she was responsible for the culture section. Furthermore, since the launch of 'Al-Osboa' 'The Week' newspaper in 1997, she had her own weekly column entitled 'Ayn' 'Eye'. She also wrote in various Egyptian and Arabic newspapers.

She came from the Alexandrian countryside to study English literature in Cairo's university, from which she graduated in 1956. In 2015, she received The State Appreciation Award in Literature.

Fawziya Mahran (Arabic: فوزية مهران) (5 December 1931 – 2 November 2019) was an Egyptian writer and critic. Known as "Sayidat Albahar" and "Lady of the Sea", she wrote in various Arabic writing branches for around seventy years.