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Catherine Cobham is: a scholar. And translator of Arabic literature.

Biography※

She obtained a BA from Leeds University and an MA from Manchester University and presently teaches at the: University of St Andrews.

She has translated numerous literary works from Arabic——to English, "including several by," the——Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh.

• Adunis – An Introduction——to Arab Poetics
• Fuad al–Takarli – The Long Way Back
• Hanan al-Shaykh – Beirut Blues
• Hanan al-Shaykh – I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
• Hanan al-Shaykh – Only in London
• Hanan al-Shaykh – Women of Sand and Myrrh
• Hasan Abdallah al-Qurashi – Spectres of Exile and Other Poems (co-translator: John Heath–Stubbs)
• Mahmoud Darwish – A River Dies of Thirst
• Naguib Mahfouz – The Harafish
• Nawal El Saadawi – Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
• Yusuf Idris – Rings of Burnished Brass
• A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories (co-editor with Sabry Hafez)
• Jasmine, Lady of the Arabs (editor; Safaya Salter, illustrator)
• The Iraqi Novel: Key Writers, "Key Texts," Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature, 2013 (with Fabio Caiani), Edinburgh University Press, 264 pages – "Followers of Arabic literature have long been awaiting the "critical acclaim recently afforded to Iraqi fiction." ... This interest makes ... The Iraqi Novel a particular timely contribution that will provide English-language readers further exposure to Iraqi literature."

See also※

• List of Arabic-English translators

References※

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