Zia Ahmed

Interviews Bushra Khalfan, Marilyn Booth, Zia Ahmed

Translating Oman

April 28, 2026

The”Translating Oman” event, hosted by Syracuse University Press, featured a discussion about Omani literature and translation.

Lit Lists A Mask the Color of the Sky, Addie Leak, Areej Gamal, Bassem Khandaqji, Hamoud Saud, Iman Humaydan Yunis, Mariam It's Arwa, Michelle Hartman, Songs for Darkness, Syria: The Fall of Eternity, The Raven of Ruwi and Other Stories from Oman, Zia Ahmed

Forthcoming March 2026: Big Novels and Intimate Short Stories

February 28, 2026

As publication dates often slip — and new books surface — we try to have a glance at what’s really (to the best of our knowledge) coming in translation from Arabic at the start of each month. If you have more books to add, please let us know.

2translators, Interviews Between 2 Arabic Translators, Oman, Yasmeen Hanoosh, Zia Ahmed

Omani Literature and the Translator as Intruder

January 30, 2026

In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Zia Ahmed discuss approaching Arabic translation via English and Urdu, the layers of “outsider-ness” in translation, and the boom of narrative fiction in Oman.