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A Delicate Symphony: Courtship, Guardianship, and (self-)Censorship in Translating from Arabic with Sawad Hussain
May 6 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT
Free and open to the public. No RSVP required. Seats are available on a first come basis.
Sponsored by Lee Scheingold, Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW Translation Studies Hub, Jackson School of International Studies, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Middle East Center, Northwest Translators and Interpreters Society (NOTIS)
Third Place Books will have a comprehensive selection of Sawad Hussain’s translations available for purchase online and at the event, including Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, Counterweight by Djuna, and Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park. Hur will sign books after the lecture and Q&A.
Click here for details about Sawad Hussain’s lecture on University of Washington campus.
Sawad Hussain is a translator from Arabic whose work has been recognized by, among others, The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the National Book Award for Translated Literature. She is a judge for the Palestine Book Awards, and has run translation workshops for Shadow Heroes, Africa Writes, the Yiddish Book Center, the British Library, and the National Centre for Writing. Her latest co-translation is The Book Censor’s Library. A former Co-Chair of the Translator’s Association (UK), she is committed to mentoring literary translators and developing the industry in general.
