New Frontiers for Arabic Literature & Translation
This special event taking place as part of the Dubai Expo is for literary translators, publishers, writers and other professionals involved in Arabic literature and translation.
This special event taking place as part of the Dubai Expo is for literary translators, publishers, writers and other professionals involved in Arabic literature and translation.
The Banipal Book Club will be discussing Shahla Ujyali's 'A Bed for the King's Daughter', tr. Sawad Hussain, on Wednesday, February 23.
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures (University of Warwick) is organizing a Roundtable on Literary Translation featuring Alexandra Büchler, Will Forrester, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Ayça Türkoglu, and Sawad Hussain.
BCLT Translator in Residence Sawad Hussain is joined by editors Tarek Shamma and Myriam Salama-Carr for a round-table discussion to celebrate the recent publication of their Anthology of Arabic Discourse on Translation (Routledge, 2022).
Join MENAWAPoco's May 2022 virtual book discussion, of Sahar Khalifeh's 'Passage to the Plaza' (tr. Sawad Hussain) at 5pm UK time.
This conference, taking place online on June 21 and 22, examines MENAWA creative expression through innovative lenses and new critical paradigms.
This panel hopes to shed light on the decision processes editors go through when considering a title for translation, as well as to clarify what is the translator’s role when bringing the book into English.
Bringing a New Audience to Arabic Literature Featuring Michael Cooperson, Sawad Hussain, and Chip Rossetti In 2018, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award launched the translation grant to foster the translation, […]
Writers, translators and editors celebrate new writing from Palestine. Featuring Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Marcia Lynx Qualey, Alice Youssef, Sonia Nimr, Sawad Hussain, Jehan Bseiso, Louis Allday, Suchitra Vijayan, Meg Arenberg and […]