Ikbal El Alaily (died 1984) also known as Iqbal El Alaily, was an Egyptian surrealist writer, and a co-founder of the journal, La Part du Sable.
[2] Ikbal El Alaily, known to friends as Boula, was a granddaughter of the poet Ahmed Shawqi.
Despite parental opposition, the pair were inseparable, though they only formally married in 1954.
[3] El Alaily's 1945 anthology, The Virtue of Germany, made the case for German romanticism as a precursor of surrealism.
[3] After her husband's death in 1973, she prepared his unpublished work for publication.