Translators

LEILA translators chose and translated samples of books presented in the selection that had no or very little existing translations in European languages. They are literary translators, and some of them were also part of the jury or the contributors who wrote books and authors descriptions for this website.

  • Gabriel Tatibouet-Sadki

    Gabriel Tatibouet-Sadki

    Gabriel Tatibouet-Sadki studied anthropology at the university Paris-Nanterre and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He learned Arabic throughout his academic curriculum and conducted extended fieldwork in Kuwait. To further his learning, he also lived in […] Read more

  • Nariman Youssef

    Nariman Youssef

    Nariman Youssef is a Cairo-born, London-based literary and semi-freelance translator. She holds a master’s degree in Translation Studies from the University of Edinburgh, manages a small translation team at the British Library, and curates translation workshops with Shadow Heroes. Literary […] Read more