Chip Rossetti has a doctorate in modern Arabic literature from the University of Pennsylvania. His published translations include Beirut, Beirut, by Sonallah Ibrahim; Metro: A Story of Cairo, by Magdy El Shafee; and Utopia, by Ahmed Khaled Towfik. He is currently editorial director for the Library of Arabic Literature at NYU Press.
Photo by Olga Serjantu / Unsplash
Whatever happened in the neighborhood, ‘Ubayd was said to be behind it.
Disappearing water pumps and gas cylinders, broken streetlights, and fires in the farmers’ ma…
;
