Mostafa Ibrahim

Mostafa Ibrahim is one of Egypt’s most prominent contemporary poets. Hailed by the late Ahmed Fouad Negm as his “heir to the throne of poetry,” Ibrahim is renowned for his groundbreaking colloquial Arabic poetry collections: Western Union: Haram Branch (2011), Manifesto (2013), and Al-Zaman (2019). The winner of the Ahmed Fouad Negm Colloquial Poetry Award, Ibrahim’s poems appear in Ploughshares, Literary Hub, and ArabLit. (Updated 1/2026)