Camels in the Sky: Travels in Arabia BY Muzafer Ahamed (9780199489428)

V. Muzafer Ahamed, Periodicals Editor, Madhyaman Daily,P.J. Mathew, Freelance Journalist and Translator,

1. V. Muzafer Ahamed is currently the Periodicals Editor of the Kerala-based ‘Madhyamam’ group. He worked in Saudi Arabia for 13 years for the Jeddah-based ‘Malayalam News’ daily. He won the Kerala Sahitya Academy prize for travel writing in 2010 and is the author of seven books in Malayalam. He hails from Perintalmanna in Malappuram district of Kerala.

2. P. J. Mathew, the translator, is a bilingual journalist with two decades of experience in English journalism in New Delhi and three decades in Malayalam in Kerala. He oversaw the launching of three newspapers from Kerala and headed the journalism training programmes of three institutions and boasts of a host of leading journalists as their guru. He turned to translation after turning 65, and has brought out six volumes in Malayalam and two in English, This book is his third work of translation. At 75, he turned a widower in late 2017, and is blessed with two children and three grandchildren. He gave up growing rubber and turned to bamboo

three years ago, when rubber prices took a nosedive. He lives in Kozhikode.