Michelle Hartman is an academic and translator. She obtained a BA from Columbia College

Columbia College

Columbia College may refer to one of several institutions of higher education in North America:In Canada* Columbia College , in Calgary* Columbia College , a two-year liberal arts institution in Vancouver...

 in 1993 and a DPhil from Oxford University in 1998. She is currently an associate professor of Arabic and francophone literature at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

. She is the author of a number of academic papers. She is also the translator of two works of contemporary Arabic literature

Arabic literature

Arabic literature is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is adab which is derived from a meaning of etiquette, and implies politeness, culture and enrichment....

: Iman Humaydan Younes

Iman Humaydan Younes

Iman Humaydan Younes is a Lebanese writer. She was born in the Mount Lebanon governorate in 1956. She studied sociology at the American University in Beirut. She has published two novels till date:* B as in Beirut...

’s Wild Mulberries and Alexandra Chreiteh's Always Coca-Cola. Wild Mulberries was shortlisted for the 2009 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

The Banipal Prize, formally known as the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, is an annual prize awarded to a translator for the published English translation of a full-length literary work in the Arabic language...

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