Paula Haydar was born on 1965 and is an American academic and translator.
11 Facts About Paula Haydar
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Paula Haydar has a PhD in Comparative literature and an MFA in Literary translation.
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Paula Haydar won an Arkansas Arabic Translation Prize for her translation of Elias Khoury's The Kingdom of Strangers.
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Paula Haydar's work has appeared in Banipal magazine and she has translated the literary work of Jabbour Douaihy, Rachid Al-Daif, and others.
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Paula Haydar then earned a MFA in literary translation from the University of Arkansas in 1998.
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Paula Haydar received a PhD, from the University of Arkansas in 2014.
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Paula Haydar taught Arabic at the University of Massachusetts before joining the faculty at the university of Arkansas in 2006.
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Paula Haydar won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Prize for her translation of Elias Khoury's The Kingdom of Strangers.
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Paula Haydar's work has appeared in two issues of Banipal magazine.
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Paula Haydar has translated novels, short stories, and poetry from Arabic to English.
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Paula Haydar is married to fellow academic Adnan Haydar and lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.