May Telmissany

May Telmissany (Arabic : مي التلمساني) (born 1 July 1965) is an Egyptian-Canadian novelist, translator, film critic and academic.

She moved to Canada in 1998 for her doctoral studies, eventually completing her PhD in 2007 from the University of Montreal under a CIDA scholarship.

In 2009, she published a collection of fragments on her experience in Canada and her successive returns to Egypt, titled Lel-Ganna Sour (Paradise has a fence).

It deals with the romantic relationships of "five middle-aged, middle class Arab intellectuals living in Canada and America", and an excerpt was published in English translation by ArabLit magazine in August 2023.

[4] Telmissany has also written in French and English on a wide range of scholarly interests, e.g. essays, articles and book chapters on cinema, photography, literature and Cairo culture.