Samira Hassan

Born in Cairo and educated in the bustling labs of Egypt’s first computer science programs, Samira Hassan migrated to Dubai a decade ago, drawn by the city’s rapid embrace of smart infrastructure. There she taught computer science, founded a security consultancy, and spent nights infiltrating the very devices meant to protect citizens, exposing flaws that spanned continents. The cumulative weight of those breaches—and the personal threats she endured—propelled her from technical reports into the realm of narrative, where she could make the invisible peril palpable. Her work orbits the relentless tension between convenience and catastrophe, fueled by the childhood trauma of a preventable fire and the anger that follows each ignored warning. In both her thrillers and investigative essays, Samira interrogates a world that sacrifices safety for novelty, insisting that every connected device is a potential death trap if left unchecked. She writes to awaken a complacent public, to turn abstract code into a visceral warning, and to demand accountability from those who build our digital habitats. Samira’s prose is a blend of forensic exactitude and urgent, almost claustrophobic pacing; sentences read like safety inspection reports, each clause a calibrated hazard note. Her voice is stark, unadorned, punctuated by the occasional sharp Arabic idiom that cuts through the technical fog. Readers first notice the cold, methodical rhythm that never lets the tension slip, a style that makes the threat feel as immediate as a fire alarm blaring in a silent house.