{"id":486,"count":1,"description":"Marilyn Booth is professor emerita, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Magdalen College, Oxford University. At Oxford, she held the endowed Khalid bin Abdallah Al Saud Professorship for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, 2015-23; at Edinburgh, she held the Iraq Chair in Arabic and Islamic Studies, 2009-15. Her research publications focus on Arabophone women\u2019s writing and the ideology of gender debates in the nineteenth century, most recently The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-si\u00e8cle Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2021). She has in recent years been a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; l\u2019Institut d\u2019\u00e9tudes avanc\u00e9es, Paris; Neubauer Collegium for Society and Culture, University of Chicago; and visiting professor, l\u2019EHESS, in addition to numerous earlier research fellowships.\r\nSafe Corridor is the twenty-first volume of Arabic fiction that Booth has rendered into English. Other recent translations include Omani author Zahran Alqasmi\u2019s Honey Hunger; Omani author Jokha Alharthi\u2019s Silken Gazelles; and Lebanese author Hoda Barakat\u2019s Voices of the Lost. Her translation of Alharthi\u2019s Celestial Bodies won the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. In addition to other novels by Alharthi and Barakat, her translations include novels by Hassan Daoud, Elias Khoury, Alia Mamdouh, Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Latifa al-Zayyat, Somaya Ramadan, and others, as well as a memoir by Nawal al-Saadawi and three short story collections. Her first venture into translating nineteenth-century fiction, Alis al-Bustani\u2019s 1891 novel Sa\u2019iba is forthcoming with Oxford World\u2019s Classics.","link":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/cb_translators\/marilyn-booth\/","name":"Marilyn Booth","slug":"marilyn-booth","taxonomy":"cb_translators","parent":0,"meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Marilyn Booth Archives - DarArab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marilyn Booth is a renowned translator and scholar of Arabic literature. She won the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and has translated 21 works into English.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/cb_translators\/marilyn-booth\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dararab.co.uk\\\/en\\\/cb_translators\\\/marilyn-booth\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dararab.co.uk\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Marilyn Booth\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Marilyn Booth Archives - DarArab","description":"Marilyn Booth is a renowned translator and scholar of Arabic literature. She won the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and has translated 21 works into English.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/cb_translators\/marilyn-booth\/","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/cb_translators\/marilyn-booth\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Marilyn Booth"}]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cb_translators\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cb_translators"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/cb_translators"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?cb_translators=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}