Rehab Bassam

Rehab Bassam (Arabic: رحاب بسام‎), is an Egyptian blogger who rose to fame in 2008 when Dar al Shorouk, one of the most prominent Egyptian publishing houses, published a collection of her blog posts in book form. She is an active blogger since November 2004.

Rehab Bassam
Born(1977-05-10)May 10, 1977
OccupationShort story writer, blogger, editor and translator
NationalityEgyptian

Biography

A graduate of Faculty of Arts (Kolleyyat al Aadaab) with a major in English,[1] Rehab started to blog back in 2004, taking it "as a challenge", in her own words, when a friend of hers teased her online for not having a blog. Having a look at his, she realized that a blog is where an individual writes about his or her daily routine, and she said to herself "It's no big deal, I too can do that". That very day she created a blog.[2]

As an Anglophone, Bassam's early posts were in English, but simultaneously and "overnight", she found herself writing in Arabic by September 2004.[2]

Bassam had a career in market research, copywriting, editing, and translation and publishing of children books.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Blog

In 2004, Bassam came into the Egyptian blogosphere, a then nascent community, through her blog Hawadeet (Egyptian colloquialism for "tales"), writing under the nickname Hadouta (Egyptian colloquialism for "a tale"), which soon gained a growing popularity. Her blog writing, stories as well as diary, is described by local reviewers as "gripping, funny, full of echoes from a wide range of influences",[10] "spontaneous", exhibiting "high literary powers",[2] written "in a fine style",[1] "well-written", "expressive",[9] and "marvelous".[11]

Works
  • Rice Pudding for Two (2008) أرز باللبن لشخصين
gollark: Which line does it say?
gollark: Nulls are, you see, evil.
gollark: - they are sufficiently distinct- there is a good reason- there are many ways to generate and use them
gollark: I'm fine with unique power systems if:
gollark: I like unique power systems like shaft power (RoC) but just a special basically-EU-ish one... meh.

See also
  • Rice Pudding for Two

References
  1. ثلاث مدونات مصرية..تحقق أعلي المبيعات في معرض الكتاب
  2. Mohammed Sameer (2008-02-13), رحاب و غاده و غاده في العاشرة مساء 1/3, retrieved 2018-03-18
  3. Dar El Shorouk' books
  4. Dar El Shorouk' books
  5. Dar El Shorouk' books
  6. Dar El Shorouk' books
  7. Dar El Shorouk' books
  8. Dar El Shorouk' books
  9. Daily News Egypt - Full Article
  10. Yallabina - Pink-clad Blogger-Writer Shares her Recipe
  11. جريدة الأهرام - أعمدة ـ صندوق الدنيا بقلم : أحمد بهجت
  • Rehab Bassam, Orz bel Laban le Shakhsain (2008), ISBN 978-977-09-2304-7
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