Miled Faiza

Miled Faiza (; born 1974) is a Tunisian-American writer.

Career

Miled Faiza was born in Monastir, Tunisia in 1974. He published his first book of poetry in 2004 and his poetry has been translated into English, French and Serbian.

Faiza is also a translator; his translation of Ali Smith's Autumn was published as al-Kharīf in 2018 and he has also published many translations of American poems into Arabic.

In addition to writing, he was a reviewing editor of the Oxford Arabic Dictionary (2014), and is the co-creator of the Tunisian Arabic Corpus. He has taught Arabic in the United States since 2006 and currently teaches at Brown University.

Selected Works

Books 

 al-Ḵarīf (Autumn), 2018 (Translation of Ali Smith novel Autumn)
 Baqiyya al-bayt allaḏī daḵalnāhā marra wāḥida (Remains of a House We Once Entered), 2004

Works translated into English 

 “A Faraway Room” and “Puppets", al-Jadid Magazine (2014)
 "An Interpretation of the House During Our Absence" and "On the Edge of the World", Banipal (2010)
 "An Interpretation of Absence" and "Black and White", World Literature Today (2008)

References

Category:20th-century Tunisian poets
Category:American people of Tunisian descent
Category:1974 births
Category:Living people
Category:21st-century Tunisian poets
Category:American Arabic-language poets