Egyptian theatre and interdisciplinary humanities scholar and practitioner (dramaturg and, occasionally, actor), translator, and freelance journalist and editor. Most notably, author of the entire portfolio on Egypt (15 entries) in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, ed. Dennis Kennedy (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Doctoral candidate, School of Theatre Studies, University of Warwick, UK, .

Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Beni Suef Branch.

Coordinator, Arabic and Translation Studies, Center for Adult and Continuing Education (CACE) at The American University in Cairo (AUC).

Professional freelance translator who has to his name a number of published translations from and into English, mainly in the fields of literature and theater studies. Translator at the office of the Minister of Culture (1990-1993).

WebMaster of CyberBabel, a compendium of links to translation and language-related web resources. (Available at <http://hazemazmy.8m.net/cyberbabel.html> as well as at the short-cut URLs<http://cyberbabel.thetechzone.net> and <http://embark.to/cyberbabel>.)

Master of Arts degree in English and Comparative Literature from The American University in Cairo (February 2000). His Master's thesis ("The Pursuit of Absence: Dramaturgy and the Interface between the World and the Text") focuses on the applications of modern literary theory to the practice of the dramaturg. Thesis website available at <http://hazemazmy.8m.net/mathesis.html> . Abstract available at <http://hazemazmy.8m.net/abstract.htm>.

Graduate of Assalam College Language School (formerly known as The English Mission College) and the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University (Honors B.A. in English language and literature).

Founding member of The Egyptian Society For Theatre Critics. Freelance journalist and theater reviewer whose articles appear sporadically in a number of Arabic- and English-language publications. English editor of Panorama, the daily journal of the Cairo International Film Festival (1991-1994). English editor of Experimental Theatre, the daily journal of the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre (1992-1994). Editor of The Experimental, the English-language daily of the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre (1995-Present).

Theater practitioner who joined The AUC Theater Company in November 1993 to play Charlie in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. In April 1995, he played different characters in A Carnival of Sketches, presented by The Caravan Theater Troupe at Sofitel Maadi Towers. He was last seen on stage in 1997 as Major ergius Saranoff in a Cairo University English-language production of G. B. Shaw's Arms and the Man. In March 1998, he dramaturged AUC Theater Company's double bill of two contemporary Egyptian one-act plays, Foot Alaina Bukra (Drop by Tomorrow!) and Welli Baadu! (Who's Next?), written by Mohammed Salmawy and directed by Indji El-Solh.

His MA thesis on the work of the dramaturg served as the founding inspiration for Al-Talia theater production Hekayat Nas El-Nahr (Nilescape: Tales of the River Dwellers) which premiered at Al-Talia Theater in August 1999. In April 2000, the play was the Egyptian official entry in the International Festival-Laboratorium in Kiev, Ukraine. Furthermore, his active collaboration with dramaturg Hazem Shehata and director Nasser Abdel-Moneim entitled him to be listed in the program notes as the play's "dramaturgical consultant." In this capacity, he also produced the English program as well as the play's website.