Hammour Ziada is a Sudanese writer and journalist, born in Omdurman. He has worked as a civil society and human rights researcher, and currently works as journalist in Cairo. He also writes for a number of left-wing newspapers in Sudan, and served as the culture editor of the Sudanese Al-Akhbar newspaper.
His novel The Longing of the Dervish won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2014.







