The authors
GHITANY Gamal
Gamal Ghitany is a writer and journalist, as well as the editor in chief of the literary weekly Akhbar el-Adab.
Among his publications:
- Zaynî Barakât, 1974
- Waqâ'i' hârat al-Za'farânî, 1976 (The Zafarani Files)
- Kitâb al-tagalliyât, 1983-87
- Risâlat al-basâ'ir fî l-masâ'ir, 1989
- hat'h al-madîna, 1990
- Hâtif al-maghîb, 1992
- Mutûn al-ahrâm, 1994 (Pyramid Texts, translated by Humphrey Davies, Cairo, American University in Cairo Press, 2007)
- Hikâyât al-mu'assasa, 1997
- Muqârabat al-abad, 2000
- Nithâr al-mahw, 2005