Sabri Moussa

Sabri Moussa is one of Egypt’s leading novelists and a recipient of the Egyptian Literary Prize with great merit. He is a journalist and a former Baghdad bureau chief of the Egyptian magazine Roz al-Youssif. His previous work includes The Half-Meter Accident, The Man in the Spinach Field, and numerous short stories. Mona N. Mikhail is professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at New York University, and the author of Images of Arab Women. She won the PEN prize for her translations of the short stories of Yusuf Idris.