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Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Kay Heikkinen has translated several modern Arabic novels into English, including Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura (American University Press, 2014) and Huzama Habayeb’s Velvet (Hoopoe Books, 2019). She is the Ibn Rushd Lecturer of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.