Her translation of Douaihy’s
June Rain (Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing), which in its Arabic original form was shortlisted for the 2008 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, was selected as the highly commended runner-up of the 2014 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation and also made the
Daily Star’s list of the six best Middle East novels of 2014. Her translation of Khoury’s
The Kingdom of Strangers (University of Arkansas Press) won the 1996 Arkansas Arabic Translation Award, and her translation of Adania Shibli’s
Touch (Clockroot), which was awarded the Young Writer’s Award–Palestine by the A.M. Qattan Foundation in its original form, made the longlist of the 2011 Best Translated Book Awards presented by Open Letter Press and Three Percent. Visit her website
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