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Luke Leafgren

Contributor

Luke Leafgren

United States

Luke Leafgren is an assistant dean of Harvard College. He has published five translations of Arabic novels and received the 2018 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his English edition of Muhsin Al-Ramli’s The President’s Gardens.

Articles by Luke Leafgren

An incomplete drawing of an elephant. Only the head and trunk are fully filled in.

"Elephant and Rider," attributed to Hashim, circa 1640. Public domain. The Met Museum, Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2010.

Naima’s Elephant

Nuwayra, despite the precision of her intelligence reports, did not advance a satisfactory explanation for how Naima acquired this elephant.

Translated from Arabic by Luke Leafgren

First Read—From “The Baghdad Clock”

By Shahad Al Rawi

In Shahad Al Rawi’s The Baghdad Clock, translated by Luke Leafgren and forthcoming from Oneworld Publications, two girls hiding in an air-raid shelter in Baghdad during the Gulf War tell stories…

Translated by Luke Leafgren