Sawad Hussain

Sawad Hussain translates from Arabic. Her work was shortlisted for the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. She is a judge for the Palestine Book Awards and has run translation workshops for the Yiddish Book Center and the British Library, among others. Her latest translations include The Djinn’s Apple by Djamila Morani and The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna al-Essa, co-translated with Ranya Abdelrahman.