Mayada Ibrahim

Mayada Ibrahim is a literary translator who works between Arabic and English and is based in Queens, New York. She has roots in Khartoum and London. She is an adjunct lecturer of Arabic at Hunter College and managing editor at Tilted Axis Press. Her translations have appeared with 128 LIT, Archipelago Books, Dolce Stil Criollo, and others. In 2025 she received the inaugural PEN Presents x International Booker Prize grant for her co-translation of Stella Gaitano's Ireme, made with Najlaa Eltom.