A long-time resident of Cairo, Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of Arabic literature from the Ottoman period to the present who has translated the likes of Yusuf al-Shirbini, Elias Khoury and Bahaa Taher. For the Library of Arabic Literature series, he has bravely taken on the task of editing and translating al-Shidyāq’s mammoth Al-Sāq ʿalā … Continue reading “A mapping expedition across a very wide continent”: An Interview with Humphrey Davies on Leg Over Leg by Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq