Samira Kawar

About The Author

Samira Kawar is a Jerusalem-born journalist and Arabic-to-English literary translator. Her published translations include Liana Badr's novel Eye of the Mirror and Abdul Rahman Munif's autobiographical work, Story of a City: A Childhood in Amman. She is a regular contributor to Banipal, the Magazine of Arab Literature, and served as a member of the judging panel for the 2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.

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Books by Samira Kawar

The Baghdad Villa

By Zuheir El-Hetti

Translated by Samira Kawar

A young Iraqi woman watches her family life collapse amid the country's political turmoil, turning to the seven world-famous paintings hanging in her family's Baghdad villa to make sense of the chaos around her. A work of translated fiction written by an award-winning Iraqi writer and journali...

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