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Paula Haydar (born 1965) is an American academic and translator. She has a PhD in Comparative literature and an MFA in Literary translation. She won an Arkansas Arabic Translation Prize for her translation of Elias Khoury's The Kingdom of Strangers. Her work has appeared in Banipal magazine and she has translated the literary work of Jabbour Douaihy, Rachid Al-Daif, and others.

Education

Haydar obtained a bachelor's degree in physics in 1987 and an M.Ed from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1991. She then earned a MFA in literary translation from the University of Arkansas in 1998. She received a PhD, from the University of Arkansas in 2014.

Career

Haydar taught Arabic at the University of Massachusetts before joining the faculty at the university of Arkansas in 2006. She works in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures as an Assistant Professor of Arabic.

She won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Prize for her translation of Elias Khoury's The Kingdom of Strangers. Her work has appeared in two issues of Banipal magazine (1998, 2008). Paula Haydar's English translation of the novel June Rain earned her second place for the 2014 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize. The Beirut Daily Star also recognized the translation in a year-end book review list of the six Top Middle East Novels of 2014 in translation.

Haydar has translated novels, short stories, and poetry from Arabic to English. Her book length translations include:

• The Kingdom of Strangers by Elias Khoury (1996)
• Learning English by Rachid Al-Daif (1998)
• This Side of Innocence by Rachid Al-Daif (2001)
• June Rain by Jabbour Douaihy (2006)
• Touch by Adania Shibli(2013)(2007)
• The End of Spring by Sahar Khalifeh(2008)
• City Gates by Elias Khoury (also translated as Gates of the City) (2007)
• The Journey of Little Gandhi, by Elias Khoury (2009)

Personal life

She is married to fellow academic Adnan Haydar and lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Their son Fuad "Kikko" Haydar played basketball for the Arkansas Razorbacks.

See also

• List of Arabic-English translators

References

1. "Paula Haydar". Banipal. Banipal. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
2. ^ "Paula Haydar". University of Arkansas. University of Arkansas. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
3. Kikko Haydar profile in Arkansas Razorbacks website Archived June 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
4. "Paula Haydar's 'June Rain' Translation Highly Commended by Prestigious Award". University of Arkansas. February 12, 2015. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
5. Rosetti, Chip (2022). "Malleable Storytelling". Banipal. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
6. "Learning English". Publishers Weekly. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
7. Elinson, Alexander E. (2001). "This Side of Innocence, by Rashid al-Daif. Translated by Paula Haydar. 152 pages. New York, NY: Interlink Books, 2001. $12.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-56656-383-6". Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. 35 (2): 217. doi:10.1017/S0026318400043406. S2CID 164295856. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
8. Duwayhī, Jabbūr (2006). June rain. Northampton, Massacnusetts: Interlink Book. ISBN 978-1623719289.
9. "Touch by Adania Shibli, translated by Paula Haydar". Smithsonian APA. Smithsonian APA. September 16, 2011. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
10. Boullata, Issa J. (October 2008). "The End of Spring : Sahar Khalifeh. Trans. Paula Haydar". Digest of Middle East Studies. 17 (2): 91–93. doi:10.1111/j.1949-3606.2008.tb00246.x. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
11. Khūrī, Ilyās (2007). City gates (1st Picador pbk. ed.). Picador. ISBN 978-0-312-42715-3.
12. Khūrī, Ilyās (2009). The journey of little Gandhi (1st Picador ed.). New York: Picador. ISBN 978-0312427177.
13. Holt, Bob (April 13, 2014). "Haydar: Lebanon right spot". Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Retrieved June 22, 2022.

• Arabic–English translators
• Living people
• University of Arkansas faculty
• 1965 births