NARIMAN YOUSSEF

Nariman Youssef is a Cairo-born literary translator and translation consultant based in London. She has translated numerous works of poetry and fiction from Arabic, and has led and curated translation workshops with Shadow Heroes, Shubbak Festival and Africa Writes. She also works in the arts and heritage sector and, since 2013, has managed an in-house translation team at the British Library. She holds a master’s degree in translation studies from the University of Edinburgh. She is a featured author in Tilted Axis’s anthology Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation (edited by Dr Kavita Bhanot & Jeremy Tiang).