Yasmeen Hanoosh

Yasmeen Hanoosh is a professor of Arabic language and literature at Portland State University and an award-winning literary translator. Her translation Closing His Eyes (Luay Hamza Abbas), received an NEA translation fellowship in 2010, and her translation of Scattered Crumbs (Muhsin al-Ramli) won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Prize in 2002, and has been since excerpted in a number of publications and anthologized in Literature from the Axis of Evil: Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Other Enemy Nations (2006). She is also the translator of Gha'ib Tu'mah Farman's debut novel, The Date Palm and the Neighbors (AUC Press, forthcoming) and Elias Khoury's last novel, A Man Like Me (Archipelago, forthcoming). Yasmeen’s short English translations of Arabic fiction have appeared in various literary journals and publications, including World Literature Today, Banipal, ArabLit Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Jadaliyya, Words Without Borders, The Iowa Review, among others.