About the Translators
Our translators are graduate and undergraduate students at the University of California, Los Angeles, with knowledge of a variety of dialects. They share an interest in Arabic and a desire to support creatives working in that language. We work mostly in pairs or groups under the supervision of UCLA’s professor of Arabic language and literature to produce accurate and idiomatic captions.
About the Director
Michael Cooperson (PhD Harvard 1994) teaches Arabic at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published two monographs and numerous articles on early Abbasid cultural history. He has also translated several modern and pre-modern Arabic works, most recently The Life of Ibn Hanbal, by Ibn al-Jawzī (NYU Press 2017), which won the Sheikh Hamad Prize for Translation and International Understanding. His other research interests include Maltese language and culture. He is currently working on a translation of al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt.