Mahmud El Sayed is a British-Egyptian writer. He lives in East London where he spends his time pondering linguistic oddities and running story ideas by his cat.
A former journalist, he covered ‘serious’ Middle Eastern politics until he had enough of chasing people up for boring quotes and decided to write about generation ships, sentient libraries and memory taxes instead.
He won the 2023 Future Worlds prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour. His debut novel, The Republic of Memory, was published in 2026 with Gollancz and Saga Press and is a work of Arabfuturism inspired by the real-world events of the Arab Spring.
