Nour Kamel

Nour Kamel is a writer, editor, and curator from Egypt working through the poetics of food, family, identity, community, oppression, language, queerness, and gender. 

Their writing can be found in ANMLY, Mizna, World Literature Today, Rusted Radishes, and Sinister Wisdom, among other publications. Their chapbook “Noon” is part of the New-Generation African Poets series and she was shortlisted for the Brunel University International African Poetry Prize in 2018 & 2020. Kamel was selected for the “Our Africa, Our Future” writing residency at LOATAD to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the African Union.

As part of Kusbarra Collective, Kamel organizes experimental collaborations, cooking, writing, and research with Mariam Boctor. Their interests include food, our bodies, ecologies, land, heritage, and alternative knowledge systems. Together they have created and facilitated several writing workshops and subsequent publications, including “The Taste of Letters / طعم الحروف” and “Our Bodies Breathe Underwater / أجسادنا تتنفس تحت الماء” at the Contemporary Image Collective, and a course (Vocabularies of Grief) at the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Kusbarra Collective’s latest project, Mukawen (Ingredient), is an ode to cooking and hosting in community with others. In 2025, Boctor and Kamel participated in the curatorial strand of Àsìkò Art School.