Haddawy, Husain

Husain Haddawy, trans. The Arabian Nights

Husain Haddawy

Husain Haddawy was born and grew up in Baghdad, taught English and comparative literature at various American universities, wrote art criticism, and is now living in retirement in Thailand.

Select Bibliography:

1. [Trans.]: The Arabian Nights: Based on the Text of the Fourteenth-Century Syrian Manuscript edited by Muhsin Mahdi. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1990.


2. [Trans.]: The Arabian Nights II: Sindbad and Other Popular Stories. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1995.


3. [Trans.]: The Arabian Nights. The Husain Haddaway Translation Based on the Text Edited by Muhsin Mahdi: Contexts, Criticism. 1990 & 1995. Ed. Daniel Heller-Roazen. A Norton Critical Edition. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.

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Norton Author's entry

Husain Haddawy, trans. Sindbad: And Other Stories from The Arabian Nights