Huda Fakhreddine

Huda J Fakhreddine is a specialist in Arabic literature. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Brill, 2015), a study of the modernist poetry of the twentieth century and the Abbasid muḥdath movement as periods of literary crisis and meta-poetic reflection. Her book The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press in 2020. Her translations of modern Arabic poems have appeared in Banipal, World Literature Today, Nimrod, ArabLit Quarterly and Middle Eastern Literatures. She is the co-translator of Lighthouse for the Drowning (BOA editions, 2017) and The Sky That Denied Me (University of Texas Press, 2020). Her book of creative non-fiction titled Zaman s̩aghir taḥt shams thaniya (A Small Time under a Different Sun) was published by Dar al-Nahda, Beirut in 2019.