Fatima Naoot is considered one of the most remarkable voices in Arabic poetry. She works as a journalist and architect. Born in Cairo in 1964, she graduated in 1987 from the faculty of Engineering at Ein Shams University, Cairo. She has published 19 books to date: seven poetry collections, nine translated anthologies from English into Arabic, and three books in literature criticism. She has translated into Arabic novels and stories of Virginia Woolf, John Ravenscroft, Chimamanda Nagozi Adichie Chinua Achebe, and poems of dozens British and American contemporary poets. She writes four constant weekly columns for newspapers in Egypt and the Middle East. She won the first prize of the "Arabic Poetry 2006" competition in Hong Kong for her fifth poetry collection, A Bottle of Glue, a Chinese/English edition (Nadwah Press, 2007). She has represented Egypt at several noted international festivals and conferences in Europe, Latin American and the Middle East. Her poetry has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Persian and Kurdish. In both articles and poems, she pays attention to minorities in Egypt like Copts and women. (the Scottish Poetry Library)