Yalo
Elias Khoury
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· 8 ratings · 317 pages · Published: 01 Jan 2008
Elias Khoury is the author of twelve novels, four volumes of literary criticism, and three plays. Editor of the cultural pages of Beirut’s An-Nahar , Khoury also is a global distinguished professor at New York University. Gate of the Sun was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2006. Peter Theroux translated Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt, Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley , and Alia Mamdouh’s A Novel of Baghdad. He has lived and traveled throughout the Middle East and is currently based in Washington, DC.