Denys Johnson-Davies Translator, Author & Editor

Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time," has produced more than thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic literature. He is the editor of The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim (AUC Press, 2008). He received the Sheikh Zayed book Award in 2007 for Personality of the Year in the Field of Culture.