Anthony Calderbank

studied Arabic and Persian at Manchester University and taught Arabic in Cairo and at Salford University, UK.

He has translated novels by Miral el-Tahawy (The Tent and Blue Aubergine), and Youssef al-Mohaimeed (Traps of Scent, which was excerpted first in Banipal, was published in full by AUC Press, and later by Penguin USA as Wolves of the Crescent Moon), also Sonallah Ibrahim’s Zaat, Naguib Mahfouz’s early novel Rhapodis of Nubia, plus a collection of Nubian short stories, Vintage Nights of Musk [Layali Al Misk Al Ateeqa] by Haggag Hassan Addoul, and a number of Palestinian short stories published in a collection edited by Nur and Abdel Wahhab El Messiri. All were first published by AUC Press.