Rana Asfour

Huda J. Fakhreddine is a writer, translator, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Brill, 2015) and The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry (Routledge, 2023). She is the co-translator of Lighthouse for the Drowning (BOA editions, 2017), The Sky That Denied Me: Selections from Jawdat Fakhreddine (University of Texas Press, 2020), and Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selections from Salim Barakat (Seagull Books, 2021).  She is the co-editor of Middle Eastern Literatures and an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature. Her book of creative non-fiction titled Zaman saghīr taḥt shams thāniya (A Brief Time under a Different Sun) was published by Dar al-Nahda, Beirut in 2019. 

Rana Asfour is the Managing Editor at The Markaz Review, as well as a freelance writer, book critic and translator. Her work has appeared in such publications as Madame Magazine, The Guardian UK and The National/UAE. She chairs the TMR English-language BookGroup, which meets online the last Sunday of every month. She tweets @bookfabulous.