title: Mohamed al-Refai
text: # Mohamed al-Refai
  
  Mohamed al-Refai is an Egyptian critic, novelist and writer. Since 1980, he has been writing for the Egyptian magazine Sabah al-Khair. He has also written a number of books, radio plays, television series, and film scripts. Al-Refai's novel Nocturnal Creatures of Sadness was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2012.
  
  Al-Refai lives and works in Cairo.
  
  ## Selected works
  
  ### Books
  
  * Palestine in Egyptian Theatre
  * Experiments in Arab Theatre
  
  ### Radio plays
  
  * A Journey in Olden Times
  * Paradise Lost
  * Papers of the Barada River
  
  ### TV series
  
  * The Overcoat (based on Nikolai Gogol's short story)
  * The White (based on a novel by Yusef Idriss)
  * The Extoller of the Moon (based on the life of the Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi)
  
  ### Film scripts
  
  * The Case of Mr. Mungid
  * Stolen Dreams
  