Raymond Stock, an expert on Middle Eastern cultural and political affairs, has translated seven books by Naguib Mahfouz, whose biography he is writing for Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and a frequent commentator in the media, Stock is an instructor of Arabic at Louisiana State University and a Shillman/Ginsburg Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum. His articles and translations of Arabic fiction have appeared in Bookforum, the Diplomatist, the Financial Times, Harper’s, International Herald Tribune, Journal of Arabic Literature, Middle East Quarterly, Zoetrope: All-Story, and many other venues. He is currently translating Egyptian writer Sherif Meleka’s 2008 novel Khatim Sulayman, with the working title “Suleiman’s Ring,” for the American University in Cairo Press.
