Muhammad Aladdin

Who is Muhammad Aladdin?

Muhammad Aladdin, also known as Alaa Eddin is an Egyptian novelist, short story writer, and script writer. He is one of the most outstanding of the new rising generation of young Egyptian writers, having had his first collection of short stories published in 2003. He is the author, so far, of four novels—The Gospel According to Adam, The Twenty-Second Day, The Idol, and The Foot —and three short story collections—The Other Shore, The Secret Life of Citizen M, and Young Lover, New Lover, his works are sophisticated and often dark observations of a society mired in secrets and reticence.

As one of his generation’s noted young writers in both Egypt and the Arab countries, Aladdin has gained acclamation for his first novel published The Gospel According to Adam in January 2006. The work has been hailed by writers like Bahaa Taher and Sonallah Ibrahim to be among the best of a promising new crop. That novel breaks the conventional format of the novel, consisting as it does of a single 60-page-long paragraph that is written in a stream of consciousness style. A reviewer for Al-Ahram's literary page on May 10, 2006 stated that The Gospel According to Adam reflects “a social reality that has lost all certainties". In his book, "The Arab Novel and the Quest for Renovation" published by Dubi Althaqafia Magazine in May 2011, the famous Moroccan writer and critic Mohammed Berrada sites it as one of 5 novels has renovated the Arab novel.