Country: Sudan, United Kingdom, United States

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Mayada Ibrahim is a literary translator and editor based in Queens, New York, with roots in Khartoum and London. She works between Arabic and English. Her award-winning translations have been published by Willows House in South Sudan, Foundry Editions, Dolce Stil Criollo, and 128 Lit.

In 2025, she won the inaugural PEN Presents x International Booker Prize grant for her co-translation with Najlaa Eltom of Stella Gaitano’s Ireme. Mayada is also an adjunct lecturer of Arabic at Hunter College (CUNY) and a founding member of the Translators Organizing Committee within the National Writers Union.