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Palestinian Poet, Translator, and Anthologist Salma Khadra Jayyusi Dies at 95
APRIL 21, 2023 — The pioneering translator, scholar, literary historian, and poet Salma Khadra Jayyusi — the most prominent anthologist of Arabic literature in English translation and founder of PROTA, the Project for the Translation of Arabic— died yesterday in Amman, Jordan.
She was 100.
Salma Khadra Jayyusi was born in 1928 to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother and spent her childhood and youth in Acre and then in Jerusalem. She studied at the Beirut College for Women and the American University of Beirut, graduatingin 1945 and returning to Jerusalem for two years before marrying a diplomat and moving with him to Jordan in 1947.
Jayyusi continued to write as she moved with her growing family to several countries, including a long stint in Iraq in the 1950s, which — according to a profile in Jerusalem Story — deepened her knowledge of Arabic literature,