Barbara Romaine Translator & Author

Barbara Romaine currently teaches Arabic at Villanova University and translates Arabic literature. She received an NEA fellowship in 2007 to work on Spectres, which was a runner-up for the 2011 Banipal Prize. A second NEA fellowship was awarded to her in 2015 for her work on Mohamed Mansi Qandil's novel, A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore.