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ABOUT

I am a literary and commercial translator working from Arabic and French into English.

As a literary translator, I translate the voices that tell their own stories on their own terms. I translate to fight against misrepresentation.

As a commercial translator, I enjoy the fields of international development, social sciences, and the environment.

I am the winner of the Stinging Fly New Translator's Bursary, the 2021 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation, and I was longlisted for the 2021 John Dryden Translation Competition. I was an ALTA 2021 Virtual Travel fellow, and was mentored by Meena Kandasamy on the National Centre for Writing’s 2020/21 Emerging Translators Mentorship scheme. I was also the Centre’s translator in residence in May 2021. I volunteer for the World Kid Lit Project, and deliver creative translation workshops in schools through the Stephen Spender Trust.

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
  • Member, Emerging Translators Network

EXTRA INVOLVEMENTS
  • Editorial Board, The Linguist magazine
  • Social media administrator, World Kid Lit
  • Volunteer, Europe Must Act (refugee rights campaign group)
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