Muhammad Al-Hinnawi

Muhammad Al-Hinnawi is a writer and translator whose work is devoted to Freudian–Lacanian Psychoanalysis. His intellectual journey began with language and linguistics, followed by studies in political science at the Institute of Arab Research and Studies and mental health at Ain Shams University. He is currently engaged in the process of analytic formation within the Lacanian orientation.

He is the founder and director of Hamish, an independent space dedicated exclusively to Lacanian psychoanalysis in the Arabic-speaking world.

His published Arabic translations include Jacques Lacan and American Sociology: Beware of the Image by Duane Rousselle and Psychoanalysis Is an Antiphilosophy by Justin Clemens, both published by Al-Rawafed Al-Thaqafia Publishers (Beirut), as well as Disavowal by Alenka Zupančič, published by Hamish (Cairo). He is also the author of The Market of Promises: “Capitalism and Desire” and the Contemporary Arab Condition, published in the second issue of Muraja'at by Madarat (Cairo).