Reception and Q&A with Translator Sawad Hussain

  • 05/08/2025
  • 17:30 - 20:00
  • Seattle Public Library Central Branch, 1000 4th Ave., Seattle, WA (Level 4, Meeting Room 1)
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Help NOTIS's Northwest Literary Translators celebrate Sawad Hussain's residency in Seattle! We'll send her off in style with a dinner reception at Seattle's Central Library, featuring a Q&A led by NOTIS translators Kay Heikkinen and Tim Gregory.

This event is intended mostly for working translators. It is open to the public, but space is limited and registration is required. Priority registration is available for NOTIS members. Please register in advance.

Please note: this event is NOT hosted, sponsored, or endorsed by the Seattle Public Library. Any views that are discussed in this meeting are not a reflection of the Seattle Public Library's views.

Don't miss Sawad's other Seattle events!

  • May 6, 4:30-6:30 pm, University of Washington: A Delicate Symphony: Courtship, Guardianship, and (self-)Censorship in Translating from Arabic More info

  • May 7, 2:00-4:20 pm, Seattle Central College: Master Class

  • May 7, 6:00-8:00 pm, Folio: Not So Simple! Translating Young Adult Literature as Resistance and Entertainment More info

  • May 8, 11:30 am, University of Washington, lunchtime colloquium: Selling Literature: What's a translator got to do with it? More info

Sawad Hussain's mini-residency in Seattle is sponsored by:
Lee Scheingold
UW Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
UW Jackson School of International Studies
UW Simpson Center for the Humanities

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