William M Hutchins

is the principal translator of the Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy. He is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Appalachian State University.

Among his other translations are Mohammed al-Khudayyir’s Basrayatha: Portrait of a City and Fadhil al-Azzawi’s The Last of The Angels (both 2007). He has translated Anubis by Ibrahim al-Koni (AUC Press, 2005), Ten Again by Ibrahim al-Mazini (AUC Press, 2006).

He was awarded a US National Endowment for the Arts Literary Translation Grant (2005-2006) for the translation of The Seven Veils of Seth by Ibrahim al-Koni.