Animals in Our Days

Mohamed Makhzangi was born in Egypt and lives in Cairo. He practiced as a doctor for twelve years before turning to journalism and science writing, working in Kuwait on al-Arabi magazine. He has published several volumes of short stories, and translations of his work have appeared in five languages. In 1992, he won Egypt's Best Short Story Collection Award. Chip Rossetti is the editorial director of the Library of Arabic Literature at New York University Press. His translations include Ahmed Khaled Towfik's Utopia and Sonallah Ibrahim's Beirut, Beirut.

In this book, Mohamed Makhzangi--one of our most important contemporary short story writers--makes us realize the consequences of our actions: how we have come to burden animals with despair, madness, and rage, and how we can restore the hidden bonds between us and the animals in our days.-- "Ahmed Naji, author of Using Life" A powerful and innovative collection of stories by an important, wonderful Egyptian writer.... The stories are intricate political commentaries on Egypt's recent history but they also range across the post-colonized world; the history of violent imperial conquest and encounter is prominent. Myriad kinds of domination and greed are beautifully sketched, with a deep sympathy as well.-- "Marilyn Booth, translator of Celestial Bodies, winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize"