Katharine Halls

Katharine Halls is an Arabic-to-English translator. She was awarded a PEN/Heim grant for her translation of Haytham El-Wardany’s Things That Can’t Be Fixed, and her co-translation of Raja Alem’s The Dove’s Necklace received the 2017 Sheikh Hamad Award. Her translations for the stage have been performed at the Royal Court and the Edinburgh Festival.

The Salt Swing

By Nabel Al-Arini

Summer 2021
Nabel Al-Arini

Manal Deeb / Courtesy of the artist A salt swing, and its story, connects a young woman to her grandmother—and more. The salt that lay on Grandmother’s lips, and the grief of the stor...