HUMPHREY DAVIES took first class honours in Arabic at Cambridge University and holds a doctorate in Near East Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. His translations from Egyptian literature range from the Ottoman period to the present day.
This book is set in BEMBO which was cut
by the punch-cutter Francesco Griffo
for the Venetian printer-publisher
Aldus Manutius in early 1495
and first used in a pamphlet
by a young scholar
named Pietro
Bembo.
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Khufu's Wisdom Copyright © 1939 by Naguib Mahfouz
English translation Copyright © 2003 by Raymond Stock
Rhadopis of Nubia Copyright © 1943 by Naguib Mahfouz
English translation Copyright © 2003 by The American University in
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Thebes at War Copyright © 1944 by Naguib Mahfouz
English translation copyright © 2003 by Humphrey Davies
Introduction Copyright © 2007 by Nadine Gordimer
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