Mohamed Salah El Azab (Arabic: محمد صلاح العزب; born 19 September 1981) is an Egyptian writer and novelist.

He has published several novels and short story collections, and has won multiple awards for his fiction.

[2] His first novel A Long Cellar with a Low Ceiling Making You Crouch was published from Kuwait in 2003.

Also in 2009-10, he was selected as one of the Beirut39, a Hay Festival project to highlight the most promising young writers in the Arab world.

Jadaliyya magazine published a long interview with El Azab in 2011.