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

Career

Miled Faiza was born in Monastir,

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

in 1974. He published his first book of poetry in 2004 and his poetry has been translated into English, French, Spanish and Serbian. Faiza is also a translator; his translation of

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'' 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.

Poetry collections

* (2019) ʾAṣābiʿ al-naḥḥāt ( (The sculptor's fingers)) * (2004) Baqayā al-bayt alladhī dakhalnāhā maratan wāḥida ( (Remains of a house we only entered once'')''

Translations

* (2023) ''al-Rabīʿ'' (الربيع), translation of

novel Spring (novel), Spring * ''(''2021) ''The Italian (Mabkhout novel), The Italian'', translation (with Karen McNeil) of Shukri Mabkhout novel ''al-Talyānī'' () *''(''2019) ''al-Shitāʾ'' (), translation of

novel ''Winter (Smith novel), Winter'' *''(''2017) ''al-Kharīf'' (), translation of

novel ''Autumn (2016 novel), Autumn''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Faiza, Miled 20th-century Tunisian poets American people of Tunisian descent 1974 births Living people 21st-century Tunisian poets American Arabic-language poets Brown University faculty