Ishraga Mustafa Hamid (Arabic: إشراقة مصطفى حامد, born 16 September 1961 in Kosti, Sudan) is an Austrian writer, translator, academic and human rights activist of Sudanese origin, living in Vienna, Austria, since 1993.
After the coup d'état of Omar al-Bashir, she emigrated to Austria in 1993 and enrolled at the University of Vienna for another degree in journalism, this time in German.
She also co-founded the 'African Women's Community', wrote studies about racism, sexism and reproductive health issues relating to female migrants and has spoken at conferences and universities.
[1] As a member of the Austrian writers' PEN club, she has edited anthologies and translated contemporary Arabic poetry into German.
[8] In January 2023, her Arabic memoir Woman of two rivers was awarded as one of fifteen books from ten languages a PEN Translates grant.