Hala El BadryHala El Badry is deputy editor-in-chief of Egypt's radio and television magazine. She is the author of four novels, including A Certain Woman (AUC Press, 2003) and Muntaha (AUC Press, 2006). Farouk Abdel Wahab was Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Aabic at the University of Chicago. He was the translator of many works of Arabic fiction, including Gamal al-Ghitani's The Book of Epiphanies (AUC Press, 2012). He won the 2007 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his translation of The Lodging House, by Khairy Shalaby (AUC Press pbk, 2008). He died in 2013, shortly after completing this translation. Read More Read Less