(1970)
Egyptian author and illustrator of children’s and young adult books. A graduate of the American University in Cairo, where she studied psychology, she spent most of her professional life working directly with children and youth as a psychologist and also as a children’s writer, conducting many storytelling sessions. She has published more than 60 books for children, youth, and adults and has received many awards for them—the first for her "Farhana" series in 1999, when she won the Suzanne Mubarak Award for Children’s Literature, and most recently the Arab Children’s Book Forum Award in 2021 for the novel "Queen Suhaila." Rania lives in Cairo with her daughter Amina and her two dogs, Snowy and Bella.