Biography

Mahmoud is a writer from Egypt with a published novel in Arabic Maps of Jonas “Kharaet Younes”, (2018), supported by a grant from Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), Beirut.

He is a literary translator between Arabic and English. He has three published translations from English into Arabic: Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea (2016), John Steinbeck’s The Pearl (2017) and John Berger’s To The Wedding (2022).

He also has been working on translations from Arabic into English: His translation of “Geometric Violence”, the first chapter...