Banipal Book Club: Shahla Ujayli’s ‘A Bed for the King’s Daughter’
2022-02-11
The Banipal Book Club will be discussing Shahla Ujyali’s ‘A Bed for the King’s Daughter’, tr. Sawad Hussain, on Wednesday, February 23.Continue Reading
Bushra Al-Maqtari & Sawad Hussain, Faïza Guène & Sarah Ardizzone Win ‘PEN Translates’ Awards
2021-12-21
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.Continue Reading
New Frontiers for Arabic Literature & Translation
2021-12-10
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.Continue Reading
Banipal Translation Prize Announces 2021’s 5-book Shortlist
2021-11-23
November 23, 2021 — This morning, organizers of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation announced this year’s shortlist. Three translators have made the shortlist of the Banipal Translation Prize for the first time in 2021: Sarah Enany (for her translation of Rasha Adly’s The Girl with theContinue Reading
Lit & Found: Najwa Binshatwan’s ‘Portrait of a Libyan Scream’
2021-11-17
Later this month, UEA Publishing Project will release Mo(a)t: Stories from Arabic, an anthology of short fiction by Arabophone writers from the African diaspora, edited by Garen Torikian and translated by Sawad Hussain and Nariman Youssef.Continue Reading
Sawad Hussain’s ‘Translating Humor in Contemporary Arabic Literature’
2021-10-06
“Humor is one of the most difficult concepts for any writer or translator to engage with, and yet undoubtedly the most rewarding when it’s done right.”Continue Reading
ALITFEST 2021: A Tale of African Novels and Their Publishers
2021-09-26
This panel with Sawad Husain and Nana Awere Damoah, moderated by S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema is part of the Abuja Literary and Arts Festival 2021. It seeks to explore the complexities that exist in the African Novel publishing industry.Continue Reading
1-Day Translation Workshop: Translating Humor in Contemporary Arabic Literature
2021-07-22
Humor is one of the most difficult concepts for any writer or translator to engage with, and yet undoubtedly the most rewarding when it’s done right. This course encourages you to translate humor from a range of genres in contemporary Arabic literature: memoir, graphic novel, short stories, and young adult literature from across the Arabic speaking world such as Libya, Lebanon, Mauritania and Palestine.Continue Reading
Translating Children’s Books: Sawad Hussain on ‘The Djinn’s Apple’
2021-07-19
For this event on translating children’s literature, Sawad Hussain will talk about her translation from the Algerian Arabic of ‘The Djinn’s Apple’ by Djamila Morani, alongside B.J. Epstein, who will be discussing her translation from the Swedish of ‘The Bird Within Me’.Continue Reading
