A Century of Writing Back: How Salma Khadra Jayyusi Brought Arabic Literature to the Anglophone World
Dima Ayoub describes the long and multivarious career of Palestinian author and critic Salma Khadra Jayyusi.
Dima Ayoub is an assistant professor of Arabic and C. V. Starr Junior Faculty Fellow in International Studies at Middlebury College, where she was formerly director of the Middle East studies program. Her forthcoming book, Paratext and Power: Modern Arabic Literature in Translation, examines the history of Arabic to English translation since World War II through the technology of paratexts. Her most recent publications have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Journal of Translation Studies, the Journal of Arabic Literature, Middle Eastern Literatures, and in an edited collection from Bloomsbury Press, Multilingual Literature as World Literature (2021).
Dima Ayoub describes the long and multivarious career of Palestinian author and critic Salma Khadra Jayyusi.