Mahmoud El-Saadany, also transliterated as Mahmud Al-Saadani or al or el Saadani or Sa'dani (20 November 1927 – 4 May 2010) was an Egyptian satirical writer and journalist.
[2] He participated in editing and founding a large number of Arab newspapers and magazines in Egypt and abroad.
He retired from journalism and public life in 2006 due to illness, and died in Giza on 4 May 2010, at the age of 81.
[4] Mahmoud Othman Ibrahim El-Saadany grew up in the Giza district of Greater Cairo.
In his books, he mainly used literary Arabic blended with Egyptian colloquialism as well of many satirical expressions he coined himself.