Ahmed Mahmoud EL Kholy is an Egyptian poet who writes in English as well as in Arabic. Born, to a university professor of plant nutrition, in Damietta governorate, on the eleventh of March 1982, he studied in Damietta Languages School. He then joined Damietta Military Secondary School and got his secondary certificate there in June, 1999. The same year, he joined Damietta Faculty of Education and graduated there in May, 2003. Getting his first bachelor degree in TEFL, he later joined Cairo Faculty of Arts in September, 2004 and got his second bachelor degree in English literature there in May, 2006. Eventually, he was appointed as a demonstrator of English literature at Mansoura University. In December 2006, EL Kholy won The International Library of Poetry Editor's Choice Published Poet Ribbon Award Pin and Commemorative Poet Scholar Medallion. The International Library of Poetry Managing Editor, Howard Ely, acknowledged EL Kholy to be "the most promising English-writing poet in Africa and The Middle East in the coming years." Watermark Press, the official publisher of The International Library of Poetry, is to publish his latest new volume of English poetry "Ozone Hole" in The International Library of Poetry annual anthology of 2007 entitled "The International Who's Who in Poetry". EL Kholy recited parts of this poetic volume in the endings of the final day of Cairo Cultural Middle Ground on Wednesday, December 27, 2006.