Autor: Marilyn Booth

Hamdi Abu Golayyel is editorial director for the Folk and Popular Culture Studies Series in the Mass/Public Culture Administration, Government of Egypt. He writes for Jaridat al-Ittihad al-Imaratiyya (Newspaper of the Emirates” Union). Hailed by critics as an important new voice, he has won three literary prizes in the region. He lives in Cairo with his wife and two daughters, Hala and Dunya.Marilyn Booth is associate professor in the programs in Comparative and World Literature and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has translated numerous works of fiction and memoir from the Arabic, including Disciples of Passion and The Tiller of Waters by Hoda Barakat and Leaves of Narcissus by Somaya Ramadan.