Anam Zafar

is a multi-award-winning translator from Arabic and French to English. She appears on the 100 Inspiring Muslims: Next Generation Edition list (Emerald Network/Aziz Foundation). Her co-translation of Josephine Baker’s memoir Fearless and Free, with Sophie Lewis, is out now with Vintage Classics/Tiny Reparations. Her co-translation with Nadiyah Abdullatif of Yoghurt and Jam, Or How My Mother Became Lebanese, Lena Merhej’s graphic memoir, won a PEN Translates Award, was shortlisted for the Saif Ghobash Prize and was longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. She has also won the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation and the Stinging Fly New Translator’s Bursary, and has numerous shorter pieces published online and in print.

Rawand Issa’s A Chicken’s Diary

Rawand Issa’s A Chicken’s Diary

Beirut graphic novelist Rawand Issa found she could begin to think more intimately about life and love by...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Rawand Issa, Anam Zafar
How to Hide in Lebanon as a Western Foreigner

How to Hide in Lebanon as a Western Foreigner

Translators Nadiyah Abdullatif and Anam Zafar bring us Lena Merhej's classic graphic novel on Merhej’s mother’s journey from...

15 DECEMBER 2021 • By Nadiyah Abdullatif, Anam Zafar
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