William Granara

About The Author

William Granara is research professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He specializes in the literature and history of the Arab Mediterranean in both the medieval and modern periods. He translated several novels from Arabic, including The Earthquake (2000), Granada (2004), and The Battle of Poitiers (2011). He is also the author of Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World (2019), Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland (2021) and is co-editor of The Thousand and One Nights: Sources and Transformations in Literature, Art, and Science (2020).

Books by William Granara

The Foreigners' Quarter

A novel

By Hasanein Ben Ammou
Translated by William Granara
A novel of mid-15th century Venice and Tunisia
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