Miled Faiza (Arabic: ميلاد فايزه, romanized: Mīlād Fāyzah; born 1974) is a Tunisian-American writer.
Miled Faiza | |
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Native name | ميلاد فايزه |
Born | 1974 Monastir, Tunisia |
Occupation | Writer |
Language | Arabic |
Nationality | Tunisian |
Citizenship | American |
Genre | Poetry |
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Miled Faiza was born in Monastir, Tunisia in 1974. He published his first book of poetry in 2004 and his poetry has been translated into English, French, Spanish and Serbian.[1]
Faiza is also a translator; his translation of Ali Smith's Autumn was published as al-Kharīf in 2018[2] and he has also published many translations of American poems into Arabic.[3]
In addition to writing, he was a reviewing editor of the Oxford Arabic Dictionary (2014),[4] and is the co-creator of the Tunisian Arabic Corpus.[1] He has taught Arabic in the United States since 2006 and currently teaches at Brown University.[5]