Ihsan Abdel Quddous (Arabic: إحسان عبد القدوس‎, Iḥsān ‘Abd al-Quddoūs) (January 1, 1919 – January 11, 1990) was an Egyptian writer, novelist, and journalist and editor in the Al Akhbar and Al-Ahram newspapers. He is known to have written many novels that have been adapted in films.

Abdel Quddous was born to a Muslim family of Turkish-Egyptian ancestry. His favorite hobby as a child was reading. At the age of eleven, he started writing short stories and classical poems.[1] His father, Mohamed Abdel Quddous, an Egyptian theatre and film actor, motivated him to pursue a career in law. Ihsan graduated from law school in 1942 and worked as a lawyer. He was, at the beginning of his career, a trainee for the law firm of Edward Qussairi, a famous Egyptian lawyer.[1] He was also an editor in Rose al Youssef, a weekly magazine that his mother Fatima al Youssef (aka Rosa al Youssef) had founded.