#packaged lives

Haifa Zangana on Translation as Revisiting the Past

Iraqi Kurdish novelist, artist, and essayist Haifa Zangana talks, this Women in Translation Month, about how translation connects the past and present, her relationship to London, and which books by women writers she recommends for translation: By Tugrul Mende   Last month, Wen-Chin Ouyang talked with ArabLit about her relationship to Haifa Zangana’s Packaged Lives, which she translated to…

On Being Wanderers in a Cosmopolitan City: A Conversation with Wen-chin Ouyang

By Tugrul Mende This autumn, Syracuse University Press will publish a short story collection by author Haifa Zangana: Packaged Lives: Ten Stories and a Novella. Zangana’s work has previously appeared in English — her Dreaming of Baghdad came out in 2012, and her articles and essays have appeared in many news outlets. Yet Packaged Lives is the first time English-language readers will have access…