Join SSB in welcoming translators

Nadine Sinno & William Taggart as they discuss

I Saw Her in My Dreams, by Huda Hamed.

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This event will be at the H Street location of Solid State Books.

I Saw Her in My Dreams is a powerful novel about interpersonal and systemic violence, examined through the lens of a relationship between Zahiyya, an anxious middle-class Omani artist, and Faneesh, the Ethiopian domestic worker she hires. Weaving between multiple perspectives and stories within stories, the novel explores honestly—but without sensationalizing or self-Orientalizing—the anti-Blackness that has endured in the Arab world and elsewhere.

Nadine Sinno and William Taggart will read selections from the novel, followed by a discussion and Q&A. 

Huda Hamed has published several short story collections and novels, including Cinderallat Muscat [The Cinderellas of Muscat].

Nadine Sinno is an Associate Professor of Arabic at Virginia Tech. Her recent publications include a translation with Paula Haydar of Jabbour Douaihy’s Firefly, which was shortlisted for the Saif Ghobash Banipal translation prize, and a monograph titled A War of Colors: Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut.

William Taggart is an Instructor in the Arabic program at Virginia Tech.