Alexander E. Elinson is Professor of Arabic and head of the Arabic program at Hunter College of the City University of New York. His translations include Youssef Fadel’s A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me and A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me, Yassin Adnan’s Hot Maroc, Khadija Marouazi’s History of Ash, and Saïd Khatibi’s The End of the Sahara.