Zahra Jishi

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

References
  1. Arkansas Arabic Translation Award website


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