Chip Rossetti

Chip Rossetti has translated several works of contemporary Arabic fiction, including the story collections Animals in Our Days by Mohamed Makhzangi and No Windmills in Basra, by Diaa Jubaili, as well as the novels Beirut, Beirut by Sonallah Ibrahim, Utopia by Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, and the graphic novel Metro by Magdy Elshafee. His latest published translation is the novel Rose's Diaries, by the Emirati novelist Reem al-Kamali, whose Arabic original was shortlisted for the 2022 International...See more

Chip Rossetti has translated several works of contemporary Arabic fiction, including the story collections Animals in Our Days by Mohamed Makhzangi and No Windmills in Basra, by Diaa Jubaili, as well as the novels Beirut, Beirut by Sonallah Ibrahim, Utopia by Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, and the graphic novel Metro by Magdy Elshafee. His latest published translation is the novel Rose's Diaries, by the Emirati novelist Reem al-Kamali, whose Arabic original was shortlisted for the 2022 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. He works as the Editorial Director for the Library of Arabic Literature bilingual book series at NYU Press and has a PhD on the Iraqi writer Muhammad Khudayyir from the University of Pennsylvania. His short translations have appeared in the White Review, Asymptote, Banipal and Words Without Borders. See less