Alice Guthrie

is a British translator, editor, event producer and occasional journalist, who first heard Arabic in Morocco in the 1990s but learned it in Damascus at the start of the millennium. Her literary, media and academic work with writers from across the vast Arab world has appeared in a broad range of international publications and venues, and been recognised with various grants and awards. Her translations usually focus on subaltern voices and rendering slang and dialect, and she is currently putting together an anthology of queer Arabic writing.