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Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg

Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg

Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg is the visual resources librarian for Islamic art and architecture at the Harvard University Fine Arts Library and a scholar of medieval Arabic popular literature. Her dissertation was entitled “Wives, Witches, and Warriors: Women in Arabic Popular Epic.” icon

A Thousand and One Translations

By Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg

In an era of increasing protectionism and nationalism, it may seem surprising (though encouraging!) that translated literature is actually on the rise in the ...

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