Yasmine Seale

Yasmine Seale (b. 1989, London) is a poet, critic, translator, artist and teacher. Among her translations from Arabic are THE ANNOTATED ARABIAN NIGHTS (W. W. Norton, 2021), described by the New Yorker as “an electric new translation”, and THE RING OF THE DOVE by Ibn Hazm, a thousand-year-old essay on the nature of love and a window on the intimate life of Muslim Spain (forthcoming from FSG, 2027). Her essays, criticism, translations and poetry have appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The New Statesman, Words Without Borders, frieze and elsewhere. A contributing editor at Bidoun magazine, she serves on the advisory board of City of Asylum, a nonprofit organization that supports writers in exile, and on the board of directors of World Poetry Books. Her visual works are in the permanent collection of the British Museum. She is a recipient of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry and of grants and fellowships from PEN America, the Wolfson Foundation, Koç University in Istanbul, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris. In 2023, she was named a fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She studied philosophy, literature and languages in Paris and Oxford. She is currently a Visiting Professor at Columbia University.

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