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- Liana Badr gives the 5th Saif Ghobash Banipal Translation Prize Lecture on 11 November in a Special Online Event with the British Library
- On 4 November Liana Badr’s novel The Eye of the Mirror, translated by Samira Kawar, will be discussed at the Banipal Book Club
Gretchen McCullough
Gretchen McCullough is an American writer and translator, raised in
Her stories and essays have appeared in the Texas Review,
The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Barcelona Review, Archipelago,
National Public Radio, Storysouth, Storyglossia, and
Her
bilingual book of short stories in English and Arabic, Three Stories From
Cairo, was published in July 2011 by AFAQ Publishing House, Cairo. A collection
of short stories about expatriate life in Cairo, Shahrazad’s Tooth, was
also published by AFAQ in 2013. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo.
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