Amina Zaydan (Arabic: أمينة زيدان, romanized: Amīnah Zaydān; born 1966) is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer.
[1][2] She was born in 1966 in Suez and now lives in Cairo where she works as a civil servant.
In 1994, her short story collection entitled It Happened Secretly won first prize in a literary competition held by Gamal al-Ghitani's Akhbar al-Adab weekly newspaper.
It also won the prize for Best Short Story Collection at the Cairo International Book Fair the following year.
An English translation of Red Wine by Sally Gomaa was published by the AUC Press in 2010.