Yasmine Seale is a British Syrian poet, translator and critic. Her essays and reviews can be found in Harper’s, Paris Review, The Nation, 4Columns and elsewhere. Among her translations from Arabic are The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton) and Something Evergreen Called Life, a collection of poems by Rania Mamoun (Action Books). Other books include Agitated Air: Poems After Ibn Arabi (with Robin Moger, Tenement Press). She is currently a Visiting Professor at Columbia University.