Hisham Kamel Abbas Mahmood Algakh is an Egyptian poet who has worked to make Egyptian poetry more accessible to young people and children. Algakh has written more than 55 poems, most of which are written in an informal Egyptian dialect. All of his poems are spoken. He published his first collection of poems, "al-dīwān al-awwal" in Cairo International Book Fair in 2017. Algakh has read his poetry in numerous concert events in the Middle East, North Africa and Western Europe.