Robin Moger

Robin Moger is a translator of Arabic literature currently living in Cape Town, South Africa. He graduated with a degree in Egyptology and Arabic from Oxford University in 2001 before travelling to Cairo to work as a journalist for the Cairo Times magazine. Following its closure he became a full-time professional translator.

He is the translator of A Dog With No Tail (AUC Press, 2009) by Hamdi Abu Golayyel, winner of the 2008 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, and one of the translators of the anthology Beirut39: New Writing from the Arab World (2010). His translation of Ahmed Mourad’s Vertigo is due to be published in 2011.