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Desmond Stewart

ديزموند ستيوارت

Notable figure 1924–1981 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 562; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 676 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Stewart, Desmond (1924-1981)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of al-Sharqawi's al-Ard into English (1962)

Biography

An English writer who spent many years in Baghdad, Beirut and Cairo, he wrote on modern Iraq and on Cairo. He translated Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi's novel al-Ard into English as Egyptian Earth (London, 1962), and wrote on whether Arabic literature could be carried over to Western readers (1961).