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Yasmeen Hanoosh

Two Stories by Luay Hamza Abbas

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Closing His Eyes (Ighmadh al-‘Aynayn) is a collection of seventeen short stories written between 2003-2007. It is the fourth and latest collection of short stories by Iraqi novelist, literary critic and short story writer Luay Hamza Abbas (published by Azmina, Amman, 2008). Through this collection, Luay Hamza Abbas’ talent as a storyteller has been acknowledged with national and international awards. The most recent of these is the Iraqi Ministry of Culture Award for ...

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Yasmeen Hanoosh

 

Yasmeen Hanoosh is Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies at Portland State University. Her tranaslations have appeared in Banipal and The Iowa Review. Her translation of Muhsin al-Ramli's Scattered Crumbs won the University of Arkansas Arabic Translation Prize in 2002. She was a fellow of the EUME program at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin in 2009-2010.