Elias Khoury, al-Shidyaq, and the Translator: Humphrey Davies in conversation with Rana Issa
Humphrey Davies translated more than thirty works of Arabic literature, including works by nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. He also became Elias Khoury's most prolific translator into English. Starting with his translation of Gate of the Sun, Davies translated all the subsequent novels that Elias wrote, revisiting earlier novels and ending with Khoury's last work, Children of the Ghetto: Star of the Sea, which he completed weeks before he passed away abruptly from a short struggle with cancer in November 2021. On one of Humphrey's visits to Beirut, I took him and Elias to the grave of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq in
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