Hala Halim
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
Hala Halim is an Alexandrian writer and literary translator and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. Her book Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive (Fordham University Press, 2013) received an Honorable Mention for the Harry Levin Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association. The book addresses C. P. Cavafy, E. M. Forster, Lawrence Durrell—the three writers considered “canonical” of Alexandria—and the Alexandrian artist and librettist Bernard de Zogheb. An Arabic translation of Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism was published under the title al-Kuzmubulitaniyya al-Sakandariyya: Arshif by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture’s National Center for Translation. Clamor of the Lake, her translation into English of Mohamed El-Bisatie’s novel Sakhab al-Buhayra, won an Egyptian State Incentive Award.
