Someone coordinating a database of translated Arabic works has asked for a little help coming up with a list of publishers who produce literary translations, Arabic –> English. Useful, right?
AUC Press
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
Interlink/Clockroot
Haus/Arabia/Swallow
Saqi Books
Archipelago
Bloomsbury
Heinemann / Pearson African Writers Series
Yale University Press
University of Texas Press
Syracuse University Press
Northwestern University Press
Ithaca Press
New York University Press
University of Texas Press
Garnet
Telegram Books
Quartet
Banipal Books
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Quercus
Three Continents
Palm Press
General Egyptian Book Organization / Egyptian State Publishing
Qatar Ministry of Culture
Zaidan Foundation (for translations of Jurji Zaidan’s novels)
ANTIBOOKCLUB (1 book, maybe more coming)
Alice James Books (1 book, maybe more coming)
Others with a few here and there:
Penguin Classics
Random House/Doubleday (In Praise of Hatred)
Overlook Press (The Doves’ Necklace)
Atlantic Books (Azazeel)
Sceptre (Sunset Oasis)
MacMillan (Metro)
I will also mention:
Aflame (Note that they published Khaled al-Khamissi’s Taxi and Sonallah Ibrahim’s brilliant Stealth and then closed, shame on them. Rights to al-Khamissi’s Taxi were picked up by BQFP but as far as I know Stealth’s still floating in the ether, SHAME ON YOU.)