Rana al-Tonsi (Arabic: رنا التونسي) is an Egyptian writer and poet.

[1] Al-Tonsi's writing addresses themes of violence, rebellion, motherhood and intimacy.

[2] Since her first publication, works include: Al-Tonsi is viewed as an important voice in the middle-generation of women poets who have published since the 1980s.

[5] The late Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad, the star of her third work, "A Homeland Called Desire", said that Rana Al-Tonsi "carries the concerns of an orphan generation rejecting the experience of the fathers who inherited the homeland.

"[6] Egyptian critic Salah Fadl, says of Rana's Tunisian Poem that it "does not rely on a continuous narrative, for a single story ... but rather composes fragments of spaced parts … It ranges from the outside to the self, from sense to abstract morality ..."[6]