Noor Naga is a Canadian-Egyptian[1] writer, most noted for her 2022 novel If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English.
[2] Naga was born in Philadelphia[3][4] and spent time living in Charleston, South Carolina, until at age seven,[5] she and her family moved to Dubai.
[7] Naga received the Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s,[6] the Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman Graduate Scholarship, and the Avie Bennett Emerging Writers Scholarship from the University of Toronto.
[6] CBC included Naga's Washes, Prays in their "Best Canadian Poetry of 2020" list.
[8] If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English received positive media responses, as well.