''Diary of a Jewish Muslim'' is a 2014 book by Egyptian author
Kamal Ruhayyim
Kamal Ruhayyim (Arabic: كمال رحيم) (born 1947) is an Egyptian writer. He obtained a doctorate in law from Cairo University, before pursuing a career in law enforcement (police and Interpol). As an author, he is best known for the Galal tril ...
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It constitutes the first part of the "Galal trilogy", dealing with the life of Galal, an Egyptian boy with a Muslim father and a Jewish mother and spanning the 1930s to the 1960s.
This book was translated into English by
Sarah Enany
Sarah Enany ( ar, ساره عناني) is a literary translator.
She has a PhD in drama and teaches at Cairo University.
She has translated works by Yusuf Idris, Mohamed Salmawy and Ahmed Aboul Gheit, but she is best known for her translation of ...
and published by
AUC Press
The American University in Cairo Press (AUCP, AUC Press) is the leading English-language publisher in the Middle East.
The largest translator of Arabic literature in the world, AUC Press has a reputation for carefully selecting and translating t ...
, a translation that was nominated for the
Banipal Prize
The Banipal Prize, whose full name is the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, is an annual prize awarded to a translator (or translators) for the published English translation of a full-length literary work in the Arab ...
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Bio of Sarah Enany
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References
2014 novels
Egyptian novels
Jewish Egyptian history
Islam and Judaism
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