Hossam Fahr is an Egyptian writer, translator, and conference interpreter. He lives in New York.
Graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
He spent most of his professional life working as an interpreter at the United Nations in New York. His last post there was the Chief of the UNHQ Interpretation Service.
He has published eight books in Egypt between 1986 and 2022; five books of short stories, two novellas, and, most recently, a translation of a highly specialized history book; “In Quest of Justice, Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt” by Professor Khaled Fahmy. All of them are in Arabic.
In 2008, his book Hekayat Amina (Amina’s Stories) won the Sawiris Foundation Award for best collection of short stories. This is the only non-governmental literary award in Egypt.
Earlier this year he started his first full-length work in English.
Tales of the Other book of the month May 2011 - special file and readers' comments and author's response
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