Hazem Fahmy

Hazem Fahmy (he/him) is a writer and critic from Cairo, Egypt. A PhD student in the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, he runs the literary newsletter wust el-balad on Substack. His debut chapbook Red//Jild//Prayer (Diode Editions, 2018) won the 2017 Diode Editions Contest, and his second chapbook, Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo, was published in 2022 by Half Mystic Press. Fahmy is a Kundiman and a Watering Hole Fellow. His writing has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2020, the Boston Review, Prairie Schooner, MUBI Notebook, Reverse Shot, and Mizna. His performances have been featured on Button Poetry and Write About Now.