About the Author

Ibrahim Nasrallah was born to Palestinian parents in Jordan in 1954, and grew up in a refugee camp there. After working as a teacher and a journalist, in 1996 he became vice-president of Darat al-Funun, Jordan's most prominent art and cultural center. He has written fifteen collections of poetry and eleven novels as well as works of literary criticism. He is also a painter and photographer. Bakr R. Abbas (1929-2000) was the supervisor of the translation department of Aramco for more than thirty years, and translated a number of English books into Arabic.