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Chip Rossetti

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Chip Rossetti is a Ph.D. candidate in Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and holds an A.B. in Greek and Latin from Harvard. Before his second career in academia, he worked for a number of years as an acquiring editor at US publishers such as Basic Books, Wiley and Little, Brown. From 2005 to 2007, he was the senior editor at the American University in Cairo Press. In addition to articles published in the Journal of Arabic Literature and Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations, he has written for trade publications such as Frommer’s and National Geographic travel guides , as well as Saudi Aramco World. He is the translator of Bahaa Abdelmegid’s novels Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers; Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Egyptian sci-fi novel Utopia; and Magdy El Shafee’s Metro, the first graphic novel for adults in Arabic. In 2010, he won a PEN America Translation Fund grant for his translation of Muhammad Makhzangi’s short story collection Animals in our Days.

Chip Rossetti

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Chip Rossetti is a Ph.D. candidate in Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and holds an A.B. in Greek and Latin from Harvard. Before his second career in academia, he worked for a number of years as an acquiring editor at US publishers such as Basic Books, Wiley and Little, Brown. From 2005 to 2007, he was the senior editor at the American University in Cairo Press. In addition to articles published in the Journal of Arabic Literature and Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations, he has written for trade publications such as Frommer’s and National Geographic travel guides , as well as Saudi Aramco World. He is the translator of Bahaa Abdelmegid’s novels Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers; Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Egyptian sci-fi novel Utopia; and Magdy El Shafee’s Metro, the first graphic novel for adults in Arabic. In 2010, he won a PEN America Translation Fund grant for his translation of Muhammad Makhzangi’s short story collection Animals in our Days.

Books from Chip Rossetti

Metro: A Story of Cairo

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers

2.3/5 ( ratings)

Animals in Our Days

4.3/5 ( ratings)

As God Is My Witness, I Will Make My Movie

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Right to Believe

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Accidental Missionary

4.3/5 ( ratings)