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Marilyn Booth
Professor Marilyn Booth is an acclaimed U.S. translator of Arabic literature into English. Her translation of Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies became the first Arab novel to win the International Booker Prize in 2019. She also translated Alharthi’s Bitter Orange Tree and Silken Gazelles; Hassan Daoud’s The Penguin’s Song and No Road to Paradise; and Hoda Barakat’s Voices of the Lost, Disciples of Passion, and The Tiller of Waters.
Her other translations include Elias Khoury’s As Though She Were Sleeping; Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea; Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s Thieves in Retirement; Alia Mamdouh’s The Loved Ones; Ibtihal Salem’s Children of the Waters; Somaya Ramadan’s Leaves of Narcissus: A Modern Arabic Novel; Nawal El Saadawi’s The Circling Song and Memoirs from the Women’s Prison; and Latifa al-Zayyat’s The Open Door.
She is Professor Emerita at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Magdalen College, University of Oxford. She has also taught at Brown University, the American University in Cairo, and the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. Her research focuses on Arabophone women’s writing and the ideological dimensions of gender debates in the nineteenth century. Her most recent monograph is The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt.
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The Future of Arabic-English Translation
A session with Marilyn Booth and Professor Yasir Suleiman exploring the future of Arabic–English translation as a cultural bridge and the challenges of preserving the soul of Arabic literature for global readers.
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