Miled Faiza

Miled Faiza (Arabic: ميلاد فايزه‎; born 1974) is a Tunisian-American writer.

Miled Faiza
Native name
ميلاد فايزه
Born (1974-04-03) April 3, 1974
Monastir, Tunisia
OccupationWriter
LanguageArabic
NationalityTunisian
CitizenshipAmerican
GenrePoetry
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Career

Miled Faiza was born in Monastir, Tunisia in 1974. He published his first book of poetry in 2004 and his poetry has been translated into English, French and Serbian.[1]

Faiza is also a translator; his translation of Ali Smith's Autumn was published as al-Kharīf in 2018 and he has also published many translations of American poems into Arabic.[2]

In addition to writing, he was a reviewing editor of the Oxford Arabic Dictionary (2014),[3] and is the co-creator of the Tunisian Arabic Corpus.[1] He has taught Arabic in the United States since 2006 and currently teaches at Brown University.[4]

Selected Works

Books
  • al-Ḵarīf (Autumn), 2018 (Translation of Ali Smith novel Autumn)
  • Baqiyya al-bayt allaḏī daḵalnāhā marra wāḥida (Remains of a House We Once Entered), 2004

Works translated into English
  • “A Faraway Room” and “Puppets", al-Jadid Magazine (2014)[5]
  • "An Interpretation of the House During Our Absence" and "On the Edge of the World", Banipal (2010)[6]
  • "An Interpretation of Absence" and "Black and White", World Literature Today (2008)[7]

References
  1. "Our Team Tunisian Arabic Corpus". tunisiya.org. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  2. ""سان فرانسيسكو" و"المنفى" قصيدتان للشاعر التونسي ميلاد فايزة" ["San Francisco" and "Abroad": Two poems by Tunisian poet Miled Faiza]. Kikah Literary Magazine.
  3. Oxford Arabic dictionary : Arabic-English · English-Arabic. Arts, Tressy. (First ed.). Oxford. pp. iv. ISBN 9780199580330. OCLC 881018992.CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. "Miled Faiza | News from Brown". Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  5. Faiza, Miled (2014). Translated by K. McNeil. ""A Faraway Room" and "Puppets"". al-Jadid Magazine. 18 (67).
  6. Faiza, Miled (Autumn–Winter 2010). Translated by K. McNeil and T. Cranfield. "Two Poems". Banipal. 39: 136–137.CS1 maint: date format (link)
  7. Faiza, Miled (May–June 2008). Translated by K. Hines. "Two poems". World Literature Today. 82 (3): 32–33. JSTOR i40004003.
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