Yasmeen Hanoosh

Yasmeen Hanoosh is an award-winning literary translator, Arabic fiction writer, and professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Portland State University. She is the translator of Elias Khoury's debut novel, On the Relations of the Circle, and is currently at work on his seminal collection of essays, The Ongoing Nakba, and the third installment of his groundbreaking Children of the Ghetto trilogy, his last novel titled A Man Like Me. 

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