Sawad Hussain

Sawad Hussain is an award-winning Arabic-English literary translator. She co-teaches a workshop on translating Arabic comics at UK secondary schools via the collective Shadow Heroes.

Her recent translations include the Palestinian resistance novella Passage to the Plaza by Sahar Khalifeh and A Bed for the King's Daughter by Shahla Ujayli.

She holds an MA in Arabic literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and is passionate about bringing narratives written in Arabic from the African continent to wider audiences.

Her Twitter handle is @sawadhussain and her upcoming translations can be found here: https://sawadhussain.com/