Omar Sayfo is a Syrian-Hungarian journalist and expert on Middle Eastern media at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University. He is the author of several books, including Arab Animation: Images of Identity. Paul Olchvary has translated more than ten books from Hungarian, including Gyoergy Dragoman's novel The White King. He has received translation awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, and Hungary's Milan Fuest Foundation. His shorter translations have appeared in The Paris Review, The Hungarian Quarterly, and turnrow.
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Sayfo has written a fascinating alternate history about the coming into power of a populist party somewhere in Europe. The story is told from the point of view of an assimilated Muslim migrant and has all the appearance of a realistic succession of events without any pathos nor moral judgement. An approach that calls to mind the best of Albert Camus.-- "Olivier Roy, author of In Search of the Lost Orient" A captivating page turner with a truly fascinating narrative. . . . The translation is very elegant, confident, and readable.-- "Zsuzsanna Varga, University of Glasgow"