Authors

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.

ARTICLES BY Yasmeen Hanoosh

  • An Excerpt from al-Sayyid Asghar Akbar by Murtedha Gzar

    An Excerpt from al-Sayyid Asghar Akbar by Murtedha Gzar

    [The following is a translation of an excerpt from the novel Al-Sayyid Asghar Akbar (Dar al-Tanwir, 2012) by Iraqi author Murtedha Gzar. This recent work by a young engineer from the southern city of Basra has received considerable attentio..

  • Two Stories by Luay Hamza Abbas

    Two Stories by Luay Hamza Abbas

    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 t..