Lit & Found: ‘How Salma Khadra Jayyusi Brought Arabic Literature to the Anglophone World’
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dima Ayoub remembers the late Salma Khadra Jayyusi, who died this April at the age of 100.
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dima Ayoub remembers the late Salma Khadra Jayyusi, who died this April at the age of 100.
The pioneering translator, scholar, literary historian, and poet Salma Khadra Jayyusi — the most prominent anthologist of Arabic literature in English translation and founder of PROTA, the Project for the Translation of Arabic– died yesterday in Amman, Jordan. She was 95.