Yasmeen S Hanoosh, Associate Professor of Arabic Studies at Portland State University, received her PhD in Arabic Language and Literature from The University of Michigan. She specialises in Iraqi literature and Arabic literary translation. Her English translations of Arabic fiction have appeared in various literary journals and publications, including World Literature Today, Banipal, and The Iowa Review. Dr Hanoosh’s translation of Luay Hamza Abbas’ Closing His Eyes, First Edition, 2013, received an NEA translation fellowship in 2010. Her translation of Scattered Crumbs by Muhsin al-Ramli, University of Arkansa Press, 2002, won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Prize in 2002, and has been since excerpted in a number of publications and anthologised in Literature from the Axis of Evil: Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Other Enemy Nations, The New Press, 2006. Dr Hanoosh’s teaching interests include modern Arabic fiction, Arab cinema, the politics of minority in the Middle East, and Applied Arabic literary translation. Her current research projects focus on the contemporary intellectual scene of southern Iraq.
