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Michelle Hartman

Michelle Hartman is a professor of Arabic Literature at McGill University and literary translator of fiction, based in Montreal. She has written extensively on women’s writing and the politics of language use and translation and literary solidarities. She is the translator of several works from Arabic, including Radwa Ashour’s memoir The Journey, Iman Humaydan’s novels Wild Mulberries and Other Lives, Jana Elhassan’s IPAF shortlisted novels The Ninety-Ninth Floor and All the Women Inside Me as well as Alexandra Chreiteh’s novels Always Coca Cola and Ali and His Russian Mother.

Books by Michelle Hartman

What the War Left Behind

Women's Stories of Resistance and Struggle in Lebanon

by (author) Malek Abisaab
translated by Michelle Hartman & Caline Nasrallah

A Long Walk from Gaza

by (author) Asmaa Alatawna
translated by Caline Nasrallah
edited by Michelle Hartman

Women's War Stories

The Lebanese Civil War, Women's Labor, and the Creative Arts

edited by Michelle Hartman & Malek Abisaab

Memoirs of a Militant

My Years in the Khiam Women's Prison

by (author) Nawal Qasim Baidoun
translated by Caline Nasrallah & Michelle Hartman
edited by Malek Abisaab

All the Women Inside Me

by (author) Jana Elhassan
translated by Michelle Hartman

Summer with the Enemy

by (author) Shahla Ujayli
translated by Michelle Hartman

Breaking Broken English

Black-Arab Literary Solidarities and the Politics of Language

by (author) Michelle Hartman

A Sky So Close to Us

A novel

by (author) Shahla Ujayli
translated by Michelle Hartman

Watermelon Madness

by (author) Taghreed Najjar
illustrated by Maya Fidawi
translated by Michelle Hartman

Always Coca-Cola

by (author) Alexandra Chreiteh
translated by Michelle Hartman