Alaa Al Aswany

Alaa Al-Aswany is the author of The Yacoubian Building and many other novels.Sarah Cleave is an editor at Gingko Library. Aran Byrne studied Arabic and Persian at SOAS, University of London, and has a master’s degree in Oriental studies at the University of Oxford. He is the Editor of East-West Divan, which is also published by the Gingko Library. Russell Harris is a curator, author, and translator who read Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. He currently works as an academic consultant at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and is the translator of Amin Maalouf’s Samarkand and Ahmed Faqih’s Gardens of the Night. Paul Naylor studied Arabic at SOAS, University of London. He has since worked as a researcher and translator for media clients such as Al Arabiya and PBS. He is currently in the PhD program on Islamic culture in West Africa at the University of Birmingham.