Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Kareem James Abu-Zeid (born 1981) is an Egyptian-American translator and writer. He was born in Kuwait in 1981 and grew up in the Middle East. He studied European languages at Princeton University, and obtained a Masters in comparative literature from UC Berkeley where he is currently pursuing a PhD. He has taught at Berkeley, Mannheim and Heidelberg.

A highly-regarded translator of modern Arabic literature, Abu-Zeid has the following titles to his name:

• Nothing More to Lose: Selected Poems by Najwan Darwish (New York Review Books, 2014)
• The Iraqi Nights by Dunya Mikhail (New Directions, 2014)
• The Mehlis Report by Rabee Jaber (New Directions, 2013)
• Confessions by Rabee Jaber (New Directions, 2015)
• Cities without Palms by Tarek Etayeb (nominated for the Banipal Prize)
• The Palm House by Tarek Etayeb

He contributes regularly to literary journals and websites such as Words Without Borders, Guernica, and Three Percent. He is currently working on a history of psychedelic literature and a volume of poetry.^[1][2]

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