Kareem Abdulrahman

Bio: Kareem Abdulrahman is a Kurdish translator and journalist. He obtained his MA in Journalism from the University of Westminster. He worked for over eight years with the BBC, where translation from Kurdish was part of his remit. He is currently Head of Editorial at Insight, a monitoring and analysis service focusing on Kurdish and Iraqi affairs. In 2013, he was awarded a place on the British Centre for Literary Translation’s prestigious mentorship programme. His translation of prominent Iraqi Kurdish novelist Bakhtiyar Ali's I Stared at the Night of the City – the first Kurdish novel to be translated into English - was published in 2016 in the UK by Periscope. He lives in London.

Events: Day of Translation (2017), An Evening with Translator Kareem Abdulrahman, Lost Countries: A CHEUSE SALON with Busboys and Poets