Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of Arabic literature from the Ottoman period to the present. Writers he has translated include Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, for the Library of Arabic Literature, as well as Elias Khoury, Naguib Mahfouz, Alaa Al Aswany, Bahaa Taher, Mourid Barghouti, Muhammad Mustagab, Gamal al-Ghitani, Hamdy el-Gazzar, Khaled Al-Berry, and Ahmed Alaidy. He has also authored, with Madiha Doss, an anthology of writings in Egyptian colloquial Arabic. He lives in Cairo.