Ahmed AlaidyAHMED ALAIDY, born in 1974, has written satirical stories for young people and currently writes a political comic strip for an Egyptian weekly. HUMPHREY DAVIES is the translator of The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (AUC Press, 2004). He was awrded the 2010 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his translation of Yalo by Elias Khoury. Read More Read Less