Muhammad Addakhakhny is an Egyptian writer and English to Arabic translator. He contributes to a number of publications with book, film, and exhibition reviews, as well as interviews with scholars and visual artists. He has translated both fiction and non-fiction and his most recent translation is The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: An Egyptian Writer in the Swinging Sixties, edited by May Hawas. His other translations include: The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt by Omnia S. El Shakry and The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt by Lucie Ryzova