
Katharine Halls
Katharine Halls is an Arabic-to-English translator from Cardiff, Wales. Her translation of Ahmed Naji’s prison memoir Rotten Evidence (McSweeney’s, 2023) was awarded the Saif Ghobash Banipal prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Her work has appeared in Frieze, Kenyon Review, AGNI, Mousse, The Believer, McSweeney’s, The Common, and elsewhere. Her most recent translation is Shady Lewis’s On The Greenwich Line (Peirene Press, 2025). She is also one third of teneleven, an agency for contemporary Arabic literature. (updated 4/2025)
AGNI has published the following translations:
Details of a War: Gaza, October 2024 - February 2025
Essay by Nahil Mohana • Translated by Katharine Halls
Gaza 2035
Fiction by Haytham el-Wardany • Translated from the Arabic by Katharine Halls