About Yasmine Seale
Yasmine Seale is a British-Syrian writer and literary translator who works in English, Arabic, and French. Her translated works include The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights and Aladdin: A New Translation. She is the first woman to translate the entirety of The Arabian Nights from French and Arabic. In 2020, she received the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry.
Seale was raised in Europe and grew up speaking English, Arabic, and French. Her mother is Syrian, and her father is Tunisian-Russian and was raised in the United Kingdom. Seale is the great-niece of Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani.
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