Kay Heikkinen

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Kay Heikkinen is a translator and academic who holds a PhD from Harvard University and was Ibn Rushd Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago. Among other books, she has translated Naguib Mahfouz’s In the Time of Love and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura and the Granada trilogy.

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Books by Kay Heikkinen

The Gates of Paradise

By Taleb Alrefai

Translated by Kay Heikkinen

A fast-paced, suspenseful novel that questions desire, painful family dynamics, and the preoccupations with Jihadism.

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