Mustafa Khalid is an author who has published several works including Salma’s Ghoul (2021) and Bagawi’s Takkiya (2022). He received the Tayyib Salih award for literary creativity for his latest work The Days of Bosta Neighborhood in 2022 and the Nirvana Prize for short stories in 2020. He has given several creative writing workshops, the most prominent being on the worlds of narrative writing as part of the project of the Nirvana Cultural Foundation.