French
Kareem James Abu-Zeid has worked as a freelance translator from French to English ever since the year 2000, when, as an 18-year-old undergraduate French major at Princeton University, he worked for three months one summer translating marketing materials for a French yacht chartering company based in Paris.
Kareem has translated one full-length book of poetry from the French:
Chaos, Crossing and Other Poems, by Olivia Elias (French-language poet of the Palestinian diaspora). Forthcoming, 2022, from World Poetry Books, in a bilingual edition.
Most recently, he has translated French essays and other texts for:
From 2015 to 2017, he was hired by MoMA as Senior Translating Editor to edit and verify the accuracy of preexisting French translations for an anthology of essays on modern art.
Kareem has translated one full-length book of poetry from the French:
Chaos, Crossing and Other Poems, by Olivia Elias (French-language poet of the Palestinian diaspora). Forthcoming, 2022, from World Poetry Books, in a bilingual edition.
Most recently, he has translated French essays and other texts for:
- MoMA.
- The scholarly journal Afriques.
- The Journal of Vietnamese Studies (University of California Press).
- Individual professors from North America, Europe, and Asia.
From 2015 to 2017, he was hired by MoMA as Senior Translating Editor to edit and verify the accuracy of preexisting French translations for an anthology of essays on modern art.
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