Zahra Jishi Explained

Zahra Jishi is a Lebanese-American translator of Arabic literature. Among her translations are:

• Where Prophets Are Killed, a collection of three novellas by the Syrian-American author Lotfi Hadad. Co-translator - Reem Salem.
• The World Through the Eyes of Angels, a novel by the Iraqi-American writer Mahmoud Saeed. Co-translators: Samuel Salter and Rafah Abuinnab.

Jishi, Salter and Abuinnab won the 2010 Arkansas Arabic Translation Award for their translation of Angels.^[1]

See also

• List of Arabic English translators

Notes and References

1. http://uark.edu/rd_arsc/mest/4776.php Arkansas Arabic Translation Award website