Sahar Tawfiq was born in Cairo in . She first published a story in 1972, has since been published in many literary journals through out the Arabic-speaking world, and has had a short-story collection published. A schoolteacher in the government school system, she recently returned to Egypt after teaching in a Saudi Arabian village. The author states that she is “an Egyptian who has love for all human beings, a modern who is deeply affected by the past, fond of nature in all its forms, offering these stories as the children of my soul.” This collection spans her career to date.
Marilyn Booth is an independent scholar and translator living in Urbana, Illinois, where she is also affiliated with the comparative literature program at the University of Illinois. A graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College and Oxford University, she has previously published three book-length translations, a monograph, and numerous articles on writers in Egypt.
