Background
She was born in Basra in 1978.
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Yasmeen Hanoosh
Edit Profiletranslator Professor of Arabic
Education
She moved to the United States in 1995, subsequently obtaining a Bachelor, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy (in Middle Eastern Studies) from the University of Michigan.
Career
She is currently a professor of Arabic at Portland State University. Hanoosh is also a translator of literary works from Arabic to English.
Achievements
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In 2002, she won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Prize for her translation of Scattered Crumbs, a novel by the Iraqi writer Muhsin al-Ramli. In 2010, Hanoosh won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to translate Closing His Eyes, a short story collection by writer and fellow-Basraite Luay Hamza Abbas.
Politics
The title of her doctoral thesis, submitted in 2008, was "The Politics of Minority: Chaldeans between Iraq and America". Her translations have appeaerd in Banipal and the Iowa Review among others
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