Iman Mersal

Iman Mersal is a groundbreaking poet, translator, and scholar whose work has expanded the horizons of contemporary literature. Through formally inventive and emotionally unflinching writing, she explores motherhood, memory, and displacement in ways that have profoundly shaped a new generation of writers. An internationally award- winning author, public intellectual, and mentor, she remains deeply rooted in Arabic literary traditions even as her widely translated oeuvre forges bold new conversations across languages, cultures, and disciplines.