GIHAN OMAR

Egyptian poetess, writer and photographer. Graduated from Cairo University, Philosophy Department. Her poems were translated into many languages, English, French, Bosnian, Romanian, Korean, Turkish, Indian, and German in different periodicals and journals, and international anthologies. She attended a number of international poetry and literature festivals.

According to critics, her poetry makes profound and deep revealing a tortured self in an agonizing time. Omar tries hard to create her own images and poetic style. Though she adopts the prose as medium for writing, her poems tend to use the internal music which makes her poetry so musical and spiritual; she also prefers the confessional tone in her poetry that is why we feel the sincerity of her poems.