Yasmeen Hanoosh

is a fiction writer, literary translator, and professor of Arabic at Portland State University. Her books include Beyond Refuge in Arab Detroit (co-editor, Wayne State University Press, 2024), The Chaldeans: Politics and Identity in Iraq and the American Diaspora (author, I.B. Tauris, 2019), Ardh al-Khayrat al-Mal’unah (author, The Land of Cursed Riches, al-Dar al-Ahliyyah 2019), Closing His Eyes (translator, Moment Books, 2011), Scattered Crumbs (translator, Arkansas University Press, 2002).