Wadida Wassef

Wadida Wassef (; born 1926) is an Egyptian writer and translator.

Biography Wadida Wassef was born in 1926 in Alexandria, Egypt. Her family was upper-class and Coptic, though she also studied the Quran to learn about her nation's majority religion, at her father's encouragement. She grew up speaking Arabic, French, and Italian at home, as well as English at school, and she studied both English and Arabic literature.

In the 1970s, she began writing her own work while feeling isolated in the small city of Shibin El Kom, where she had relocated for her husband's career.