Mbarek SryfiMbarek Sryfi, poet, translator, and scholar. His work has been widely published in many journals and magazines, and anthologies including Al-Arabiyya, Banipal, CELAAN Review, Metamorphoses, Middle Eastern Literatures, The Journal of North African Stuies, Translation Review, World Literature Today, and ArabLit. Sryfi has co-authored Perspectives: Arabic Language and Culture in Film (2009), translated & co-translated, The Monarch of the Square (2014), The Arabs and the Art of Storytelling (2014), The Elusive Fox (2016), The Blueness of the Evening (2018), The Handsome Jew (2022), and Alone by the Nile (2023). Sryfi published a chapbook, The Trace of a Smile (2018), which shared first place, and two collections of poetry, City Poems-A Selection of poems (2020), Chasing a Moving Landscape (2022) Read More Read Less