Bahaa Abdelmegid, with a Ph.D. in English literature from Ain Shams University, is a visiting professor at Oxford University. He is the author of two collections of short stories and four novels, including Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers (AUC Press, 2010). Jonathan Wright is the translator of a number of Arabic novels including Rasha Al Ameer's Judgment Day (AUC Press, 2011) and Fahd al-Atiq's Life on Hold (AUC Press, 2012). He was awarded the 2013 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his translation of Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan.

"The narrative of Temple Bar is a digressive stream of consciousness replete with encounters, incidents, memories, and literary quotations." Susannah Tarbush, Banipal 52;

Bahaa Abdelmegid, with a Ph.D. in English literature from Ain Shams University, is a visiting professor at Oxford University. He is the author of two collections of short stories and four novels, including Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers (AUC Press, 2010). Jonathan Wright is the translator of a number of Arabic novels including Rasha Al Ameer's Judgment Day (AUC Press, 2011) and Fahd al-Atiq's Life on Hold (AUC Press, 2012). He was awarded the 2013 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his translation of Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan.

"The narrative of Temple Bar is a digressive stream of consciousness replete with encounters, incidents, memories, and literary quotations." Susannah Tarbush, Banipal 52;