Sahar Tawfiq (Arabic: سحر توفيق; born 1951) is an Egyptian novelist, short story writer and translator.
[1] Born and raised in Cairo, she studied Arabic language and literature at Al-Azhar University.
Her first collection of stories An Tanhadera ash-Shams (That the Sun May Descend; 1984) was well received.
After a long hiatus, her next book, a novel called Ta'am ez-Zaitoun (The Taste of Olives), came out in 2000.
She has also translated works from English into Arabic, including books by Margaret Atwood, Ishmael Beah, Doris Lessing and Maxine Hong Kingston.