Author: Ahmed Farouk

Ahmed Farouk (b. Egypt 1971), studied Mass Communications at Cairo University and Translation Studies at the J. Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germersheim). He’s been an editor at Deutsche Welle in Bonn and Berlin since 2003, and a freelance literary translator since 2001. He lives in Berlin. Farouk has translated the works of Günter Grass, W. G. Sebald, Peter Handke and Rosa Luxemburg, among others, into Arabic.