Translating Contemporary Arabophone African Writing

Mayada Ibrahim

Titled Axis Press

Mayada Ibrahim (she/her) is a literary translator and editor based in Queens, New York, with roots in Khartoum and London. She works between Arabic and English, and her translations have been published by Willows House in South Sudan, Foundry Editions, Dolce Stil Criollo, and 128 Lit. She is the managing editor at Tilted Axis Press, a publisher of contemporary literature by the global majority. Mayada is also an adjunct lecturer of Arabic at Hunter College and a founding member of the Translators Organizing Committee within the National Writers Union.