Zahra Jishi is a

Lebanese-American Lebanese Americans ( ar, أمريكيون لبنانيون) are Americans of Lebanese descent. This includes both those who are native to the United States of America, as well as immigrants from Lebanon. Lebanese Americans comprise 0.79% of the ...

translator of

Arabic literature Arabic literature ( ar, الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is '' Adab'', which is derived from ...

. Among her translations are: * ''Where Prophets Are Killed'', a collection of three novellas by the

Syrian-American Syrian Americans are Americans of Syrian descent or background. The first significant wave of Syrian immigrants to arrive in the United States began in the 1880s. Many of the earliest Syrian Americans settled in New York City, Boston, and Detroi ...

author Lotfi Hadad. Co-translator - Reem Salem. * ''The World Through the Eyes of Angels'', a novel by the Iraqi-American writer

Mahmoud Saeed Mahmoud Saeed (born 1939) is an Iraqi-born American novelist. Born in Mosul, Saeed has written more than twenty novels and short story collections, and hundreds of articles. He started writing short stories at an early age. He wrote an award-w ...

. Co-translators: Samuel Salter and Rafah Abuinnab. Jishi, Salter and Abuinnab won the 2010 Arkansas Arabic Translation Award for their translation of ''Angels''.Arkansas Arabic Translation Award website
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Arabic–English translators American people of Lebanese descent Living people American women writers American translators Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{US-translator-stub

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