Sufi Abdallah

Sufi Abdallah (1925 – ) was an Egyptian playwright, novelist, short story writer, journalist, editor, and translator.

Sufi Abdallah was born in 1925 in Faiyum. She attended British, French, and Italian schools and had a private Arabic tutor. She worked as a teacher and began writing short stories in 1942.

From 1948 to 1975, she worked for the Dar al-Hilal publishing house as an editor. She contributed numerous short stories to their publications, as well as the weekly column "Your Problem" in the women's magazine Hawaa and summaries of foreign plays and novels for ''Al-Hilal.  She published five novels, a dozen short story collections, translations, and two collections of biographies of women. ''

Her drama Kisibna al-brimo (1951) was the first play by an Egyptian woman staged at the Cairo Opera House by the Modern Theatre Company. 

Translations of her work into English include her stories "Eight Eyes" (translated by Miriam Cooke) and "Half a Woman" (translated by Dalya Cohen-Mor).