William Granara

Who is William Granara?

William Granara is an American author, translator and scholar of Arabic language and literature. He studied at Georgetown University and the University of Pennsylvania, obtaining his PhD from the latter in Arabic and Islamic studies. He has worked for the American University in Cairo and for the US State Department in Tunis. He is currently director of the Arabic language program at Harvard University.

Granara is an expert on the history of Muslim Sicily, and on the Sicilian Arab poet Ibn Hamdis. He has also contributed to a volume entitled The Architecture and Memory of the Minority Quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean City. Among his translations are:

The Earthquake by Tahir Wattar

Granada by Radwa Ashour

The Battle of Poitiers by Jurji Zaydan

Granara's work has appeared in Banipal magazine.