Yahya Taher Abdullah (1938–1981) born in the Upper Egyptian village of Karnak, was a prominent figure in the circle of writers known as the Generation of the Sixties. He was the author of four novellas and five collections of short stories. A collection of his stories, The Mountain of Green Tea, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies, was published by the AUC Press in 1999.
Samah Selim is the translator of Memories of a Meltdown: An Egyptian between Moscow and Chernobyl by Mohamed Makhzangi (AUC Press, 2006) and Brooklyn Heights by Miral al-Tahawy (AUC Press, 2011). She won the 2009 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for her translation of The Collar and the Bracelet, and the 2011 University of Arkansas Press Award for Arabic Literature in Translation for her translation of Tree of Pearls, Queen of Egypt. She currently teaches at Rutgers University.
