Being Abbas El Abd: A Modern Egyptian Novel

Ahmed Alaidy is an Egyptian novelist, screenwriter, director, and short-story writer. He has participated in international writing workshops at the University of Iowa and the University of Hong Kong, written for publications including The Washington Post, and his latest documentary has been released on Netflix MENA. His debut novel Being Abbas el Abd was translated into seven languages.

Humphrey Davies (1947-2021) was an award-winning literary translator of Arabic into English. He received a first class honors degree in Arabic at Cambridge University and a doctorate in Near East Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. He won and was shortlisted for numerous literary prizes, and was twice awarded the prestigious Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. He translated Naguib Mahfouz, Elias Khoury, Mourid Barghouti, Alaa Al Aswany, and Bahaa Taher, among others.