Osman Nusairi
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Osman Nusairi is a theatre director and award-winning translator. He has translated two Arabic novels into English
- Nawal el-Saadawi's Two Women in One (1985; co-translator with Jana Gough) and Reem Bassiouney
's The Pistachio Seller (2009). The latter work won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award
in 2009.
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
- Nawal el-Saadawi's Two Women in One (1985; co-translator with Jana Gough) and Reem Bassiouney
Reem Bassiouney
Reem Bassiouney is an Egyptian author and sociolinguistics professor, currently residing at Georgetown University. She has written several novels and a number of short stories and won the 2009 Sawiris Foundation Literary Prize for Young Writers for her novel Dr. Hanaa...
's The Pistachio Seller (2009). The latter work won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award
Arkansas Arabic Translation Award
The Arkansas Arabic Translation Award is a prize given for a notable English translation of a book-length literary work originally written in the Arabic language. The award is administered by the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Arkansas...
in 2009.