Amr Muneer Dahab

is a Sudanese-born essayist and poet, best known for his critical essays tackling controversial cultural, literary, intellectual, and political issues in the Arab world and worldwide. His over twenty years’ experience as a columnist in opinion journalism, in addition to his academic engineering degree and relevant practical career, allowed his words to be architected in a skillfully depict reality with honesty, objectivity, and creativity.

Personal Life

• Born in Khartoum, Sudan
• Received his primary and secondary education in Sudan
• Moved with his family to Kuwait where he completed high school
• Joined the Faculty of Engineering/Electrical Engineering Department at Mansoura University in Egypt
• Had been to many countries, and settled in the United Arab Emirates to work in the field of electrical engineering while writing in the Sudanese newspapers

Writing Journey

• Started writing poetry at high school
• Kept and developed his poetic experience throughout university study years.
• Received poetry awards during college years, including the First Level Prize of Poetry at the 14^th Youth Cultural and Artistic Meeting of Egyptian Universities in 1989
• After graduation from University, he opted for the essay as a form of writing with all its literary and journalistic dimensions
• Worked for many Sudanese newspapers starting from the mid-1990s
• Has more than forty books published in Arabic and English
• Many Arab newspapers have been concerned with his works and seminars
• His lectures received much attention and coverage from the part of the Media
• Has been received by many radio and television channels to talk about his work and experience as an essayist and writer

Amr’s Books in English

• Damn the Novel: When a Privileged Genre Prevails Over All Forms of Creative Writing (AuthorHouse – Bloomington, Indiana 2018)
• Facing Troublemakers (AuthorHouse – Bloomington, Indiana 2020)
• You Are Always Good to Go (AuthorHouse – Bloomington, Indiana 2021)
• Life Painkillers (AuthorHouse – Bloomington, Indiana 2021)
• Cuisine: Feeling Food (AuthorHouse – Bloomington, Indiana 2021)
• Reading (AuthorHouse – Bloomington, Indiana 2021)
• Pocket: Your Personal Economy (AuthorHouse – Bloomington, Indiana 2021)
• Inspire (AuthorHouse – Bloomington, Indiana 2021)
• Criticizing (AuthorHouse – Bloomington, Indiana 2021)
• Stubborn in Love: Poems (AuthorHouse – Bloomington, Indiana 2021)
• Deep (AuthorHouse – Bloomington, Indiana 2021)
• Wisdom Highway (AuthorHouse – Bloomington, Indiana 2022)

Amr’s Books in Arabic

• Between the Average Writer and Osama Anwar Okasha (Khartoum as the Capital of Arabic Culture 2006)
• Sudanese Genes (Dar Azza – Khartoum 2010)
• The Sudanese Character in the Eyes of the Sudanese Elite (Dar Azza – Khartoum 2010)
• From a Non-Professional Listener to Mohamed Wardi (Dar Al Mahrousa – Cairo 2011)
• Wisdom Highway (Dar Al Mahrousa – Cairo 2011)
• O Writers Be Humble (Editions Difaf – Beirut 2013)
• No Compulsion in Revolution (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Dar Al- Aman – Rabat, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria 2013)
• Tales of a Poor Expatriate (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Dar Al- Aman – Rabat 2014)
• Your Bedroom in Globalization (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Dar Al- Aman – Rabat 2014)
• Some of My Improprieties (Dar Al-Yasmeen – Sharjah 2015)
• On the Margins of the Sudanese Character (Dar Al Mahrousa – Cairo 2015)
• Arab Genes: The Unrevealed Phases of the Arab Character (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria 2015)
• The Sudanese Character Between Tayeb Salih and Hassan  Al -Turabi (Dar Al Mosawarat – Khartoum 2016)
• Memories of Easygoing Students (Dar Al Mosawarat – Khartoum 2016)
• O Old Man: About Aging (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria, Dar Oma – Baghdad 2016)
• Damn the Novel: When a Privileged Genre Prevails Over All Forms of Creative Writing (Arab Scientific Publishers – Beirut 2017)
• Feelings and Ideas I Do Not Own (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria, Dar Al- Aman – Rabat, Everything Library – Haifa, Palestine 2018)
• Halfa and the Sudanese Character (Dar Madarat – Khartoum 2019)
• Who Are We? The Question Is Inevitable (Dar Madarat – Khartoum 2019)
• Genres War (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria 2019)
• The Sudanese Character: The Complete Works (Dar Al Mosawarat – Khartoum 2019)
• Revolutionary Genes (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria 2020)
• A Collection of a Resigned Poet: Poems (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria 2020)
• For Her Passionately: Poems (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria 2020)
• Everything in Life Is a Trend (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria 2020)
• Literary Atheism (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria 2021)
• Egyptian Genes: About the Particularity of Egyptians (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria 2021)
• Fame Logarithms (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria 2022)
• Football Genes (Editions Difaf – Beirut, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria, Dar Al- Aman – Rabat 2023)
• Deep: In Wisdom Literature and Self-Enlightenment (Dar Al- Aman – Rabat, Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria, Editions Difaf – Beirut 2024)
• We the Actors: Everything but the Truth (Editions Difaf – Beirut,  Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria, Dar Al- Aman – Rabat 2024)
• Feminine Genes: About the Particularity of Eve (Editions Difaf – Beirut,  Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria, Dar Al- Aman – Rabat 2024)
• An Inquisition into the Heart of Al-Mutanabbi (Dar Al- Aman – Rabat, Editions Difaf – Beirut, , Editions El Ikhtilef – Algeria 2024)