[The following excerpts are from Khalil Sweileh’s Barbarian’s Paradise (Jannat al-barabira) (Cairo: Dar Al-‘Ayn, 2014). The book is structured as a journal chronicling life in Damascus; the entries s..
Michele Henjum
Michele Henjum is a freelance translator living in Cairo. She has a Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature from CUNY Graduate Center and is cofounder of the web-project CairoBookStop. She can be contacted at henjum.michele@gmail.com