Catherine Cobham teaches Arabic language and literature at the University of St Andrews and has translated a number of Arab writers, including Naguib Mahfouz,Yusuf Idris, Hanan al-Shaykh and Fuad al- Takarli.
‘I’m alive even though I feel no pain.’
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