Ben-Ben is a story of a youth who lived more than three thousand years ago during ancient Egypt’s most magnificent time, the reign of Rameses the second. With little more than his youthful enthusiasm and his precious ney, a flute-like instrument, he left home in search of fortune, unaware of the perils awaiting him in the form of wild animals, thieves, slave traders and a beautiful princess.
Elizabeth F. Emens is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She earned her law degree at Yale and her Ph.D. at Cambridge. She lives in New York City.