Mohamed El-Bisatie Author

Mohamed El-Bisatie (1937–2012) published his first collection of short stories in Arabic in 1968. Over his career, he wrote five more volumes of short stories and numerous novellas. Born and raised in the Nile Delta, he lived in Cairo.

Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) has been described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time."