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Fathy Ghanem was a writer and journalist born in Cairo, Egypt in 1924.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Cairo University in 1944 and went on to work as a reporter for Ruz al-Youssef. He also worked as editor of Sabah al-Khair magazine and editor-in-chief at the al-Gumhuriya newspaper.

His other novels include The Mountain(1958) and The Elephants (1981). In 1994, he was recipient of the prestigious State Merit Award for his contributions to Egyptian literature.

Ghanem died in 1999.

Translated from Arabic by Desmond Stewart.

Desmond Stewart was a British author and translator born in 1924. He worked for many years in Baghdad, Beirut, and Cairo. He wrote a number of books about Egyptian and Arabic culture and history as well as several novels such as Early Islam (1967) and his trilogy, The Sequence of Roles. He died in 1981.