Gretchen McCullough is a senior instructor at the American University in Cairo. Her bilingual book of short stories in English and Arabic, Three Stories from Cairo, translated with Mohamed Metwalli, was published in 2011. A story collection, Shahrazad’s Tooth, was published in 2013. Her translations have appeared in WLT.
Historical markers for Ismail Yassine. They are both off of 26th of July Street. Photo courtesy of the author
Suffering news fatigue, a writer-translator walks Cairo’s streets searching fo...
One of the reasons I love living in Cairo is the fact that everyone spins yarns: the porter, the maid, the taxi driver. No one has the corner on stories—many of these stories rely on rumor, humor, an...