Paula Haydar

is Professor of Arabic at the University of Arkansas. She holds an M.F.A. degree in Literary Translation, and has translated several novels by contemporary Lebanese novelists.

Her translations include three novels by Elias Khoury – Gates of the City (Abwab al-Madina) and The Journey of Little Gandhi (Rihlat Ghandi al-Saghir) with the University of Minnesota Press, and the third, The Kingdom of Strangers with the University of Arkansas Press, which won the 1996 Arkansas University Press award for the best manuscript translation of Arabic fiction.

She has also translated two novels by Lebanese author Rachid al-Daif – This Side of Innocence (Nahiyat al-Bara'a) and Learning English (Learning English), both published by Interlink, and a novel by Sahar Khalifeh, The End of Spring, also published by Interlnk.

Paula Haydar holds a BSc in Physics and has taught both Physics and Arabic in the USA and the Middle East.