Sawad Hussain is an Arabic translator and litterateur with an MA in Modern Arabic Literature from SOAS. A regular contributor to journals such as ArabLit and Asymptote, she has assessed Arabic works for English PEN Translation grants and was co-editor of the Arabic-English portion of the award-winning Oxford Arabic Dictionary (2014). She has lectured at IAIS and the University of Exeter, and taught KS3 & KS4 Arabic in Johannesburg and Dubai. Her recent translations include a Palestinian resistance classic by Sahar Khalifeh.