Autor: Ibrahim al-Koni

Ibrahim al-Koni was born in Libya in 1948. A Tuareg who writes in Arabic, he spent his childhood in the desert and learned to read and write Arabic when he was twelve. He studied comparative literature at the Gorky Institute in Moscow. He is the author of over eighty volumes, including novels, stories, and aphorisms, and has been translated into thirty-five languages. Roger Allen retired in June 2011 from his positions as Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics, School of Arts and Sciences, professor of Arabic and comparative literature, and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania.