Wiam El-Tamami is an Egyptian writer, translator, editor, and wanderer. She has spent many years in different cultures and communities across the Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia, and North America. Her writing and translation work has been published in Granta, Freeman’s, Social Movement Studies, Jadaliyya, Alif, Banipal, and Craft (forthcoming), as well as several anthologies. She won the 2011 Harvill Secker Translation Prize and was a finalist for the 2023 DISQUIET Prize. She is currently based in Berlin, while exploring life in alternative rural communities around Europe.