Born in 1975, Dr. Shaymaa El-Sherif graduated from Ecole Saint Joseph d’Alexandrie in 1992 and received her PhD in French Literature from the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, in 2009. Before joining the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 2003, she has worked in several fields since 1996. Currently, Dr. Shaymaa is the Acting Head of the BA Halls and the Dialogue Initiatives Department and a lecturer at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology. Her first novel Book of Jerusalem was published in 2013. She has written several articles published in Al-ahram, Nahdet Misr and Al-Shorouk newspapers and is currently writing her second novel.