Sophie Abdullah

Sufi Abdallah ( – ) was an Egyptian playwright, novelist, short story writer, journalist, editor, and translator.

Sufi Abdallah was born in in Faiyum. She attended British, French, and Italian schools and studied Arabic at home and was a student of Egyptian literary critic and journalist Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad, who referred to her as "Al-Sayyid Sufi". She worked as a teacher and began writing short stories in 1942. From 1948 to 1975, she worked for the Dar al-Hilal publishing house as an editor. She contributed numerous short stories to their publications, as well as the weekly column "Your Problem" in the women's magazine Hawaa and summaries of foreign plays and novels for Al-Hilal.

Translations of her work into English include her stories "Eight Eyes" (translated by Miriam Cooke) and "Half a Woman" (translated by Dalya Cohen-Mor).