Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi is an Egyptian author, translator, and literary critic who specializes in fantasy, science fiction and children鈥檚 literature. He has five novels published in Arabic so far, two of them 鈥淩eem: Into the Unknown鈥� and 鈥淢alaz: City of Resurrection鈥� were translated into English. He has published many short stories, poems, and articles published in various languages.