Books by Gamal Al-Ghitani

'Gamal al Ghitani [is] now perhaps Egypt 's leading novelist ' wrote Robert Irwin in the TLS. He is the author of The Zafarani Files (Arabia Books, May 2009), Zayni Barakat (AUC Press, 2004) and The Mahfouz Dialogs (AUC Press, 2007) and has been awarded the Sheikh Zayed Award for Literature for his novel Rinn. Ghitani is the Editor-in-Chief of the Cairo literary review Akhbar aladab. His works are translated into several languages. He has previously been awarded the State Merit Novel Award.