Translation

Empty Cages

Hoopoe

2025

Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. Forthcoming May 2025.

The Doves' Necklace

Overlook Press (US) / Duckworth (UK)

2016

Winner of the 2017 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation (tied for 1st place).

Sarmada

Swallow Editions (UK) / Interlink (US)

2011

"[...] the gem of the Arabic literature of dissent." — The New Yorker

The Hashish Waiter

The American University in Cairo Press

2011

A zesty translation of Khairy Shalaby's exploration of Cairo's hashish underworld.

Cairo Swan Song

AUC Press / Arabia Books

2011

A mirror to something very real about the line between art, charity, and profiting off other people's exotic misery.

Le Gallienne's Paraphrase and the Limits of Translation

in A. Poole, C. van Ruymbeke, W. H. Martin, and S. Mason (eds), FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Popularity and Neglect, London: Anthem Press, pp. 175–92

2011