Kareem James Abu-Zeid is an award-winning translator, editor, writer, and scholar. He has translated numerous writers, namely Najwan Darwish, Rabee Jaber, and Songs of Mihyar the Damascene by Adunis (co-translated with Ivan Eubanks, New Directions, 2019; Penguin Modern Classics, 2021), among others. He is the recipient of awards, fellowships, honors, and residencies from PEN America, the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry magazine, the Fulbright Program, the Lannan Foundation, and Banff Centre for the Arts. Abu-Zeid lives outside of Santa Fe.