Egyptian Playwright, Translator, Professor Mahmoud El Lozy Dies at 67
American University in Cairo professor, translator, playwright, actor, and director Mahmoud El Lozy died over the weekend. He was 63.
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Remembering Humphrey Davies
“I do know what kind of writer I like – the marginal and contrarian, and those who deal with real life.”
Celebrating Humphrey: 10 Translations, 11 Interviews
Humphrey Davies produced many translations and gave many interviews on a wide range of work, medieval to contemporary, in his 24 years as a literary translator. These are a few of our favorites.
An Excerpt of Amr Ezzat’s ‘The Deer’s Visit’
“Almost 15 years ago, my ex-wife’s father told me that he used his connections in the security services to find out how dangerous my political activity was, and they told him that my political classification in their files was: sympathetic to communists.”
Lit & Found: Three YouTube Panels on Arabic Literature and Translation
“Three recent panels on Arabic literature and translation have appeared on YouTube.”
On the Suspended 2021 Khartoum International Book Fair
“The books that used to be officially banned in the ousted surveillance state, like those of the acclaimed Sudanese novelist Abdelaziz Baraka Saki, and the bold investigative journalist and writer Fathi al-Daw, were supposed to reclaim their place in the shelves of the book fair.”
Humphrey Davies and the ‘Tabloid Touch’ Demanded by Translating a 13th-century Charlatan
“He seems to me a truly in-between character – in between autodidact and man of letters, in between conman and upstanding citizen, in between chancer on the streets of Damascus and provincial court hanger-on in the provinces.”
All That Ali Kotb Knows: On ‘Meccano’
Before it was published by the now-shuttered Sharkiat publishing house in 2011, the novel won the Ihsan Abdel Quddous Award that same year.