I am an Arabic-to-English translator. I am a 2021 recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for my translation of Haytham El-Wardany's Things That Can’t Be Fixed . I was awarded the 2017 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation for my translation, with Adam Talib , of The Dove's Necklace by Saudi author Raja Alem. The novel was also shortlisted for the 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation .
As well as modern standard Arabic, I translate premodern Arabic and colloquial Arabic in both written and spoken forms, especially for film and theatre . To date I've worked with Egyptian, Sudanese, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Iraqi, Saudi and Algerian dialects.
I’m also a member of 10/11 , a new European literary agency and collective committed to bold and excellent literature dealing with timely and timeless issues, in Arabic and translated into other languages.