Ahmad Abdelhalim

An Egyptian novelist and researcher who writes on political sociology and the body, and its relationship to spaces of power, colonialism, and neoliberalism.

He has published six books, including: Who Owns the Right to the Body (2022), Representations of Egyptian Society in Self, Body, and Identity (2023), and the novel Al-Tabi’ wa Suleiman [The Subaltern and Suleiman]: On Love, the Body, and Exile (2025).

He publishes on Arabic, English, and French platforms and in journals such as Khat 30, Al-Jumhuriya, Jadaliyya, Arabi21, Al Jazeera, the Arab Center for Research (Paris), Hiumna, and Dawwin Magazine.

The Body as a Living Archive Text

Geography of the Body

Five years of prison for my body. Deprivation of everything, movement, and freedom. Why? This is the price of politics in my country. Whom do I consult, complain to, scream to, or question? God.