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Humphrey Davies

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Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of some twenty works of modern Arabic literature, among them Alaa Al-Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building, four novels by Elias Khoury, including Gate of the Sun, and Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq’s Leg over Leg. He has also made a critical edition, translation, and lexicon of the Ottoman-period Hazz al-quhuf bi-sharh qasid Abi Shaduf by Yusuf al-Shirbini and compiled with a colleague an anthology entitled Al-‘ammiyyah al-misriyyah al-maktubah: mukhtarat min 1400 ila 2009 . He read Arabic at the University of Cambridge, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and, previous to undertaking his first translation in 2003, worked for social development and research organizations in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Sudan. He is affiliated with the American University in Cairo, where he lives.

Humphrey Davies

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of some twenty works of modern Arabic literature, among them Alaa Al-Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building, four novels by Elias Khoury, including Gate of the Sun, and Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq’s Leg over Leg. He has also made a critical edition, translation, and lexicon of the Ottoman-period Hazz al-quhuf bi-sharh qasid Abi Shaduf by Yusuf al-Shirbini and compiled with a colleague an anthology entitled Al-‘ammiyyah al-misriyyah al-maktubah: mukhtarat min 1400 ila 2009 . He read Arabic at the University of Cambridge, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and, previous to undertaking his first translation in 2003, worked for social development and research organizations in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Sudan. He is affiliated with the American University in Cairo, where he lives.

Books from Humphrey Davies

Gate of the Sun: Bab Al-Shams

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Friendly Fire

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Life Is More Beautiful Than Paradise: A Jihadist's Own Story

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The Book of Charlatans

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Season of Migration to Arkadia: Short Story

The Book of Charlatans

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Friendly Fire

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Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded: Volume One

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A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo

In Darfur An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume I

Risible Rhymes

Leg over Leg: Volumes One and Two (Library of Arabic Literature)

The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley

The Men Who Swallowed the Sun: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)

Private Pleasures: An Egyptian Novel

Private Pleasures

In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People

Jaffa Forever

Leg over Leg: Volume Three (Library of Arabic Literature, 34)

Yusuf Al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded (Kitab Hazz Al-Quhuf Bi-Sharh Qasid ABI Shaduf): Volume II: English Translation, Introduction and Notes