Sunday Submissions: NCW Emerging Translator Mentorships 2023
Applications are open until August 31, 2022.
Sawad Hussain
Lit & Found: Sawad Hussain on Resources for Editing Translations
For the last post of her residency at the British Centre for Literary Translation, Arabic-English translator Sawad Hussain shares some of the resources she uses when editing translations.
BCLT Summer School Publishers Panel
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.
Post-Millennial MENAWA: a 2-day Interdisciplinary Conference
This conference, taking place online on June 21 and 22, examines MENAWA creative expression through innovative lenses and new critical paradigms.
BCLT Research Seminar – Round Table: Arabic Discourse on Translation
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 […]
Roundtable on Literary Translation
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.
MENAWA Reading Group: ‘Passage to the Plaza’ by Sahar Khalifeh
Join MENAWAPoco’s May 2022 virtual book discussion, of Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘Passage to the Plaza’ (tr. Sawad Hussain) at 5pm UK time.
Banipal Book Club: Shahla Ujayli’s ‘A Bed for the King’s Daughter’
The Banipal Book Club will be discussing Shahla Ujyali’s ‘A Bed for the King’s Daughter’, tr. Sawad Hussain, on Wednesday, February 23.
Bushra Al-Maqtari & Sawad Hussain, Faïza Guène & Sarah Ardizzone Win ‘PEN Translates’ Awards
What Have You Left Behind?, by the author-translator duo Bushra Al-Maqtari and Sawad Hussain, is among eighteen projects in thirteen languages to have won a Fall 2021 PEN Translates Award.