HALA EL BADRY is deputy editor in chief of Egypt’s radio and television magazine. She is the author of four novels, including A Certain Woman (AUC Press, 2003), which was awarded the prize for best novel of 2001 at the Cairo International Book Fair. NANCY ROBERTS is the translator of Mohamed El-Bisatie’s Over the Bridge (AUC Press, 2006) and Salwa Bakr’s The Man from Bashmour (AUC Press, 2007) for which she received a commendation in the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Translation.