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- ISBN 9781479800728
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2015
- Publisher: New York University Press
- Publication City/Country: United States
- Language: English
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Amad Fris al-Shidyq (Author) Amad Fris al-Shidyq (1805 or 1806-1887) was a foundational figure in modern Arabic literature. Born to a prominent Maronite family in Lebanon, al-Shidyq was a pioneering publisher, poet, essayist, lexicographer and translator. Known as the father of Arabic journalism, al-Shidyq played a major role in reviving and modernizing the Arabic language. Humphrey Davies (Translator) Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of some twenty-five works of modern Arabic literature, among them Alaa Al-Aswanys The Yacoubian Building, five novels by Elias Khoury, including Gate of the Sun, and Amad Fris al-Shidyqs Leg over Leg. He has also made a critical edition, translation, and lexicon of the Ottoman-period Brains Confounded by the Ode of Ab Shdf Expounded by Ysuf al-Shirbn, as well as editions and translations of al-Tniss In Darfur and al-Sanhrs Risible Rhymes from the same era. In addition, he has compiled with Madiha Doss an anthology in Arabic entitled Al-mmiyyah al-miriyyah al-maktbah: mukhtrt min 1400 il 2009 (Egyptian Colloquial Writing: selections from 1400 to 2009) and co-authored, with Lesley Lababidi, A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo. He read Arabic at the University of Cambridge, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and previous to undertaking his first translation in 2003, worked for social development and research organizations in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Sudan. He is affiliated with the American University in Cairo.
