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Denys Johnson-Davies dead at 94: <\/strong>If you\u2019ve read Naguib Mahfouz in English, odds are good it was translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. Same goes for Yusuf Idris and countless other Egyptian and Arab writers and poets. Johnson-Davies did more than most to make Arabic literature accessible in the English language. An obituary in Ahram Online reports that he died yesterday. Read Johnson-Davies\u2019 obituary of Naguib Mahfouz for the Guardian<\/a>, check out the Ahram Online obit<\/a>, or have a look at how the New York Sun<\/a> took note of his 2006 \u201cThe Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction,\u201d which was the first time we encountered the claim that \u201cthe first Arabic novel dates from 1929.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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