Books By Mekkawi Said - Author

Mekkawi Said (1955-2017) was an award-winning writer from Cairo. His first collection of short stories appeared in 1981, and his first novel won the Suad Sabbah Arab Creativity Prize in 1991. Cairo Swan Song was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the "Arabic Booker") in 2008.

With a PhD from Oxford University, Adam Talib is currently an assistant professor at Durham University. He is an award-winning literary translator and has translated, among others, Mekkawi Said and Raja Alem.