• When: Wednesday, May 7, 2 to 4:20 p.m.
• Where: Seattle Central College, Broadway Edison Building, BE4149

Acclaimed literary translator Sawad Hussein will visit Seattle Central College to lead an undergraduate workshop for students in Takami Nieda’s ENGL210: Translation for Global Competence class. While translation is often seen as a solitary task, this workshop will highlight the advantages of working collaboratively within a supportive community. Students will explore key questions like, “What is the translator trying to achieve?” and “How can we help improve the translation?” The workshop will include an editing exercise, a session where select participants’ translation excerpts are workshopped, and a Q&A.

A limited number of seats are available to NOTIS members. Interested members should register through the NOTIS website. The registration portal will close when the cap is reached.

Sawad Hussain is a translator from Arabic whose work has been recognised by, among others, The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the National Book Award for Translated Literature. Recent releases include a co-translated sci-fi YA title (I Want Golden Eyes by Maria Dadouch) and a murder mystery YA novel (The Djinn’s Apple by Djamila Morani). A former Co-Chair of the Translator's Association (UK), she is committed to mentoring literary translators and developing the industry in general.

Join us for more of Sawad’s events!

• May 6, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., University of Washington: A Delicate Symphony: Courtship, Guardianship, and (self-)Censorship in Translating from Arabic
• May 7, 6 to 8 p.m., Folio: Not So Simple! Translating Young Adult Literature as Resistance and Entertainment
• May 8, 11:30 a.m., University of Washington, lunchtime colloquium: Selling Literature: What's a translator got to do with it?
• May 8, 5:30 to 8 p.m., Seattle Central Library: Reception with NOTIS

Sawad Hussain's mini-residency in Seattle is sponsored by:

• Lee Scheingold 
• UW Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures 
• UW Jackson School of International Studies 
• UW Simpson Center for the Humanities 

Questions? Email Takami.Nieda@seattlecolleges.edu