The most popular English translation of her work is of her collection of short stories, Distant View of a Minaret and Other Short Stories, which is translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.
Denys Johnson-Davies (Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز) is an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who has translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.
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The album was recorded at Tolan McNeil's Lucky Mouse Studios and also features Tolan McNeil, Gregory "Goose" MacDonald, Carolyn Mark, Diona Davies, Ida Nilsen, Grayson Walker and Calvin Dick.
Ashley Slanina-Davies (born 18 December 1989) is an English actress born in Standish, near Wigan, who is notable for playing the role of Amy Barnes on Channel 4's teen soap, Hollyoaks.
Former Texas senator John Tower, 65, his daughter Marian, astronaut Manley "Sonny" Carter, and American College of Physicians president-elect Dr. Nicholas Davies, and N.A.T.O. liaison Dr. June T. Amlie, were among the 23 passengers and crew killed.
On 1 June 1806 an agreement was entered into whereby John Jones, a London-Welsh surgeon and apothecary, of Gracechurch Street, London and Derry Ormond, Ceredigion, Thomas Morgan, an Aberystwyth solicitor and David Davies, of Machynlleth later of Aberystwyth, then of Castle Green House, Cardigan, entered into partnership to carry on for 14 years a banking business under the name Jones, Morgan & Davies.
Lord Davies fought in the Second World War as a major in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was killed on the Western Front in September 1944, aged 29, only three months after succeeding his father in the barony.
Davies was reinstated to the university the next school year, and returned to the basketball team, where he is scheduled to complete his athletic eligibility in 2013.
The tender had been let to Davies by the State government under John Forrest.
On Charles Davies Sherborn's own death in 1942, the Manor was inherited by his nephew Ronald Thorne Sherborn, father of the conservationist Derek Sherborn.
Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a child Davies was encouraged to play soccer and coached by his father Kofi Davies, an immigrant from the Gambia.
In 2013 Davies was again selected for the British team, this time for the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal.
The cast consisted of Reginald Brooke, Zoe Davies, Olga Edwardes, Wilfred Fletcher, Neil Porter, Hilary Pritchard, Henry Belling and Ben Soutten.
Cyborg Cop is a 1993 action adventure film starring David Bradley, John Rhys-Davies, Todd Jensen, Alonna Shaw and Rufus Swart as the Cyborg.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert- Explorer and Founder of the first English colony in America.
Davies discusses a much larger, second ACE, and the decision to contract with English Electric Company to build the DEUCE—possibly the first commercially produced computer in Great Britain.
The post is being advertised and currently filled by the Forestry Commission Area Land Agent - Richard Davies FRICS, assisted by James Brittan, whose offices are at Bank House, in Coleford.
On 13 June 2006 Davies became an American citizen, having been sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Gilli Davies is a Cordon Bleu cook from Wales who has been involved with food, food journalism and broadcasting since about 1975.
The strong players Nigel Davies, Rupert Moon, Robin McBryde, Craig Quinnell and Phil Davies, and others, played for Llanelli.
The USA version, made in 1989, has Iva Davies walking around Myall Lakes National Park.
Later the same year she appeared as Mrs Manningham in the first production of Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton.
In 1984, Jennifer Davies of the BBC was looking for a venue for a projected television programme on traditional methods of vegetable gardening, to be called The Victorian Kitchen Garden.
In 1944, his musical, Jenny Jones, which had a Welsh setting, was a flop, but it was followed by the successful revue Fine Feathers (1945), Her Excellency (1949) starring Cicely Courtneidge, and Dear Miss Phoebe (1950).
Like many successful Victorian and Edwardian businessmen, Davies was eager to serve his community through municipal politics and at the same time provide himself a stepping-stone to further advancement.
Before his first book was published in 1938, Davies' work appeared in the Western Mail, the Merthyr Express, the Daily Herald, the Left Review and Comment (a weekly periodical of poetry, criticism and short stories, edited by Victor Neuburg and Sheila Macleod).
In 2012, Sclavunos began an ongoing collaboration with Australian performance artist/musician Michaela Davies on a composition entitled “FM-2030” (so-named for the transhumanist philosopher Fereidoun M. Esfandiary) utilizing programmed electro-muscular stimulation (EMS) of classical string players to generate involuntary playing movements.
In Spring 2009, Graham-Davies' play 'Beating Berlusconi', based on Liverpool FC's remarkable 2005 UEFA Champions League victory over AC Milan began touring across venues on Merseyside including the Unity Theatre in Liverpool, and has subsequently toured internationally, with a Norwegian production opening in the autumn of 2011.
Born in Halstead, Essex, England in 1840, Davies was the fifth eldest of the six boys and six girls of Ebenezer Davies and Ruth Bartlett.
A sudden death playoff between Piers and Laura Davies was narrowly averted when Davies sank an eight-foot par putt on the last hole of the tournament.
A tremendous display by Len Davies in goal kept City in the game, and after 25 minutes of the second half, Ellis headed the ball down into the path of McAllister who slotted the ball past Pontel in the Napoli goal.
Davies, who played club cricket for Clydach and who represented Aberavon RFC in rugby, made his first-class cricketing debut during the 1975 season, against Cambridge University.
Marianne Davies (1743 or 1744, England - c. 1818) was an English musician, and the sister of the classical soprano Cecilia Davies.
The Mowbray-Clarkes lived in Rockland County, New York at a farm and studio called Brocken, just six miles from Davies.
More recently Glencoe was the subject of Eric Linklater's 1957 story "The Masks of Purpose", and David Clement-Davies's "Fire Bringer", in which the region is called the "Valley Of Weeping".
They produced a family of 6 children - Arnold Mercer Davies 1876, Marion Agnes Davies 1877, Henry Gascoigne Davies 1879, Beatrice Elizabeth Davies 1880, Muriel Kate Davies 1882, and Olive Blanche Davies 1884.
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Davies represented the electoral district of St. Kilda in the Legislative Assembly from 1883 to 1888; was a member of the Royal Commission on Transfer of Land and Titles to Land in 1885; was sworn of the Executive Council in Feb. 1886, and held a portfolio in the Gillies-Deakin Government as a Minister without responsible office from that date till Oct 1887.
Justin de Villeneuve (Nigel Jonathan Davies), British modelling agent and celebrity of the 1960s
Immediately after retirement, Scudamore became assistant trainer to his business partner Nigel Twiston-Davies.
He joined the blues during the 1928/29 season, and by 1930 he was selected to represent Wales in a Five Nations Championship match against Scotland in an all-Cardiff three-quarter line alongside Davies, Jones and Turnbull.
F. C. Davies died at his home of 9 Preswylfa Street in Canton, Cardiff, Glamorgan, aged only 48.
Davies was born in Kensington, Liverpool to working-class Catholic parents, the youngest child in a family of ten children.
In 1928, Marion Davies and Joel McCrea starred in a screen adaptation directed by Robert Z. Leonard for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but it never was released, possibly because William Randolph Hearst objected to his mistress Davies portraying a common shopgirl in her first sound film.
It then features a version of the title track from Davies' 2007 solo album Working Man's Café, versions of six album tracks from The Kinks' 1968 album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society and closes with a version of another well-known Kinks single "All Day and All of the Night".
1975 Ham and Eggs, couloir on the south face: Jon Krakauer, Tom Davies and Nate Zinsser to main summit, July 16-18th.
His television production work included the British version of Fraggle Rock (second series onwards), and several independent documentaries including the 1989 International Emmy Award-winning Gwen: A Juliet Remembered, about stage actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies.
Speakers presented during the Davies years included John Mason Brown, Margaret Bourke-White, Bennett Cerf, Norman Cousins, Bernard DeVoto, Sinclair Lewis, Wayne Morse, Carl Rowan, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Dorothy Thompson.
Throughout the tenth century, Davies says, "ravagings went on," in Gwynedd, the south-east, in Dyfed, and often perpetrated by Mercian kings, all this despite courtly appearances of friendship.
It also follows Irish, British and American surfers Richie Fitzgerald, Gabe Davies, Kelly Slater and the Malloy Brothers.