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Sarah Cleave Editor & Author

Alaa Al Aswany is the author of The Yacoubian Building and many other novels. Sarah Cleave is an editor at Gingko Library. Aran Byrne is the editor of East-West Divan, also published by the Gingko Library. Russell Harris is a curator, author, and translator. He works as an academic consultant at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and is the translator of Amin Maalouf's Samarkand and Ahmed Faqih's Gardens of the Night. Paul Naylor works as a researcher and translator for media clients such as Al Arabiya and PBS.