Yasmeen Hanoosh

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).

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.