Biographie d'Elias Khoury
Elias Khoury was born in Lebanon in 1948. Editor in Chief of the cultural pages of the daily newspaper An-Nahar and Professor of Arabic literature at New York University, he is the author of eleven novels. In 2000, he was awarded The Prize of Palestine for Gate of the Sun. Humphrey Davies has been living in Cairo, Egypt, for more than twenty years. His literary translations from the Arabic span from the seventeenth century to the present day.