[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..
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.