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).

maia tabet is a literary translator, journalist, and editor, who has translated prominent authors such as Elias Khoury. She was born in Beirut and was raised in Lebanon, India, and England. She studied philosophy and political science at the American University of Beirut and lives between the United States and Cyprus. A few of her translations include The Baghdad Eucharist, by Sinan Antoon; The Monotonous Chaos of Existence by Hisham Bustani, and a recent title by Rula Al-Jurdi, which may be published as Camera Obscura in English. She has also translated short stories, novel excerpts and essays by Iman Humaydan, Najwa Barakat, Alawiya Subh, Hala Kawtharani, Abbas Beydoun, and Elias Khoury (Lebanon); Khaled Khalifa and Zakaria Tamer (Syria); Elias Farkouh and Hisham Bustani (Jordan); Ahmed Fagih (Libya); Habib Selmi (Tunisia); Luay Hamza Abbas (Iraq); Ali Muqri (Yemen); Amir Tag Elsir (Sudan); Bassam Almusallam, Jassim Al-Shammarie, and Estabraq Ahmad (Kuwait); and Ziad Abdallah (UAE).