Kareem James Abu-Zeid
Kareem James Abu-Zeid, PhD, is an award-winning translator of poets and novelists from across the Arab world and beyond, and has translated over a dozen full-length books from three different languages. His most recent translation is Najwan Darwish’s Exhausted on the Cross (NYRB Poets, 2021). He is also the author of the book The Poetics of Adonis and Yves Bonnefoy: Poetry as Spiritual Practice (Lockwood Press, 2021).
Reading List
Contemporary Arabic Poetry in Contemporary Translation
Prior to 2001, Arabic literature—despite its vast history and broad geographies—would have counted as a fairly “minor” literature in terms of its English-language translations. But after the attacks of September 11, the Arab world was suddenly of acute interest to the United States and the rest of the English-speaking world. Enrollment in Arabic language courses […]