The Blue Elephant ( ) is a psychological thriller in Arabic by the Egyptian novelist Ahmed Mourad, and his third novel. After five years of self-imposed isolation, psychiatrist Dr Yehia returns to work at Cairo’s Abbasiya mental hospital, where the ward known as 8 West decides the fate of patients accused of crimes.

There he is confronted by an old friend who brings back a past Yehia has tried hard to forget, and whose future suddenly rests in his hands. What begins as an attempt to uncover his friend’s secret turns into an unsettling journey into Yehia’s own mind. Dark, gripping and steeped in the hidden corners of the psyche, it suits readers of mystery and horror.