An Iraqi in Paris (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780957442481)

Christina Phillips is Lecturer of Arabic Literature at the University of Exeter. She began translating Arabic fiction as a PhD student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Her translations include Morning and Evening Talk (2008) by Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz and Like A Summer Never to be Repeated (2009) by Mohamed Berrada. Piers Amodia translates from Arabic, Italian and Spanish into English. He spent eight years in the merchant navy before going to Edinburgh University to study Arabic. He lived briefly in Cairo teaching Italian before moving to Rome where he works as a translator for the Vatican. Samuel Shimon was born into a poor Assyrian family in Iraq in 1956. He left his country in 1979 to go to Hollywood and become a filmmaker, travelling via Damascus, Amman, Beirut, Nicosia, Cairo and Tunis. In 1985 he settled in Paris as a refugee. He began writing short stories in 1979, and poetry in 1985. In 1996 he settled in London, UK. In 1998 he co-founded Banipal magazine of modern Arab literature in English translation, and in 2020 started a Spanish edition. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described him as "the Initiator" and "a tireless missionary for literary matters".