Farouk Abdel WahabFarouk Abdel Wahab was Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Chicago. He was the translator of many works of Arabic fiction, including Hala El Badri's Rain over Baghdad (AUC Press, 2014). He won the 2007 Saif Ghobash-Banipal rize for Arabic Literary Translation for his translation of The Lodging House, by Khairy Shalaby (AUC Press pbk, 2008). He died in 2013. Read More Read Less