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About Ibrahim Fawzy
Ibrahim Fawzy is an Arabic translator and litterateur who is passionate about bringing narratives from Africa and the Middle East to wider audiences. He’s a two-time graduate of the British Center for Literary Translation (BCLT) Summer School, fully-funded by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award. He was awarded a mentorship with the National Center for Writing, UK (2022/2023) as a part of their Emerging Literary Translators Program. He was a recipient of Culture Resource’s Wijhat grant. His translations, reviews and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in ArabLit Quarterly, Words Without Borders, PEN Transmissions, Consequence, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Poetry Ireland Review, The Massachusetts Review, Exchanges, The Markaz Review, Babel, among others. He’s an editor in Rowayat, Asymptote, and Minor Literatures, and podcasts at New Book Network (NBN). He participated in several readings, including PEN Women in Translation series. Ibrahim won a 2023 PEN Presents award for his Arabic to English translation of Kuwaiti author Khalid Al Nasrallah’s The White Line of Night. His translation of Rema Hmoud’s “Glass” has been shortlisted for Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2024, and his translation of an excerpt from Hassan Akram’s A Plan to Save the World will be published in Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2025.NBN Episodes hosted by Ibrahim:
May 18, 2024
River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation
What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonialism, gender, war, displacement, desir…
May 12, 2024
Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction
In 1960s Egypt, a group of writers exploded onto the literary scene, transforming the aesthetic landscape. Yasmine Ramadan’s Space in Modern Egyptian …
May 10, 2024
Translation Theory for the Practising Literary Translator
Do translation theorists observe what translators do and develop theories based on that? Do translators gain ideas and tools from studying theories? O…
May 2, 2024
Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility
The question of whether to acknowledge a text as a translation and thereby bring attention to the translator’s role has been a central topic in discus…
April 20, 2024
Undesired Revolution
Ahmed M. Abozaid’s Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt--A Three Level Analysis (Brill, 2023) introduces new non-Western perspectives on …
March 29, 2024
Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story
Zakariyya Tamir is Syria’s foremost writer of short stories, and his works are widely read across the Arab world. In Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics …
February 25, 2024
Narratives of Mistranslation
Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature (Routledge, 2023) offers unique insights into the role of the transla…