William Granara is an American author, translator and scholar of Arabic language and literature. He studied at Georgetown University and the University of Pennsylvania, obtaining his PhD from the latter in Arabic and Islamic studies. He has worked for the American University in Cairo and for the US State Department in Tunis. He is currently director of the Arabic language program at Harvard University. * The Earthquake by Tahir Wattar * Granada by Radwa Ashour * The Battle of Poitiers by Jurji Zaydan Granara's work has appeared in Banipal magazine.