Out now

FEARLESS AND FREE

Memoir by Josephine Baker, co-translated with Sophie Lewis.

Available now from Vintage Classics (UK) /  Tiny Reparations (US)

Covered on BBC Radio 4's Front Row
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**One of Vanity Fair‘s Six Memoirs to Read this Month**
**One of W Magazine‘s Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Winter 2025**
**One of Oprah Daily’s 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025**

“A gorgeous, captivating gem of a memoir…Josephine Baker’s as enthralling on the page as she was on the stage.” —Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling author of Eden Undone and Sin in the Second City

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​​YOGHURT AND JAM: OR HOW MY MOTHER BECAME LEBANESE

Graphic memoir by Lena Merhej, co-translated with Nadiyah Abdullatif.

Available now from Balestier Press. 

**Winner: PEN Translates Award**
**Shortlisted: Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize**
**Longlisted: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation**

​About

I am an award-winning literary and commercial translator working from Arabic and French into English.
​I also design and deliver creative translation and art workshops.

EDUCATION

• MA Applied Translation Studies (Pass with Distinction) - University of Leeds, 2020. Full scholarship awarded by the Aziz Foundation.
• BA French and Arabic (1st class Honours with Distinction in spoken French) - University of Exeter, 2018.
• Advanced Arabic (including Jordanian dialect) - Qasid Arabic Institute, Jordan, 2015.

MEMBERSHIPS

• Associate Member, Society of Authors
• Career Affiliate, Chartered Institute of Linguists

EXTRA INVOLVEMENTS

• Member, Access Working Group, Translators Association, Society of Authors
• Editorial Board, The Linguist magazine, Chartered Institute of Linguists
• Volunteer, World Kid Lit