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Yasmine Seale

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Yasmine Seale

United Kingdom Syria

Yasmine Seale is a writer and translator. Among her translations from Arabic are The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton) and Something Evergreen Called Life, a collection of poems by Rania Mamoun (Action Books). She lives between Paris and New York, where she teaches at Columbia University.

Articles by Yasmine Seale

Translator and New York Public Library Cullman Center fellow Yasmine Seale stands at podium as...

A Song of Praise for Marcia Lynx Qualey

By Yasmine Seale

Yasmine Seale lauded Marcia Lynx Qualey, the winner of the 2024 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature, at an in-person ceremony in New York on June 4, 2024.

White foam swirling on a river's surface

Photo by kallern, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

I float on worry

By Rania Mamoun

I live on the lip, split / between slipping & holding

Translated from Arabic by Yasmine Seale