William M. Hutchins is the principal translator of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy and the sole translator of Mahfouz’s Cairo Modern. Among his other translations are Mohammed al-Khudayyir’s Basrayatha: Portrait of a City, Fadhil al-Azzawi’s The Last of The Angels, Ibrahim al-Koni’s Anubis, and Ibrahim al-Mazini’s Ten Again. In 2005, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts literary translation grant for the translation of The Seven Veils of Seth by Ibrahim al-Koni. Hutchins is a professor of philosophy and religion at Appalachian State University.