About me:

Amal Fares is a Syrian writer and translator, born in As-Suwayda in 1982.

Holds Venezuelan citizenship., and currently resides in New York, USA.

Translates from and into Spanish. Her articles have been published in several

Newspapers and Arabic websites, such as The Newarab, Haramon, Rommn,

Raseef 22, Al-Jumhuriya, Ultra Voice, Dahnon, abwab, Takween, Al-Quds Al-Arabi,

Jadaliyya and others. She started as a creative writer and then as a volunteer translator for

Global Voices since 2015.

• A member of the American Translators Association ATA
• A member of the Syrian Writers Association
• Founding member of the International PEN Association - Syrian Section
• Student at Monroe College in the Department of Arts and Humanities.
• Has completed a number of educational courses from Harvard University.

• Holds a Certificate of Trainer Counselor and leader in Human Rights from the Us Institute
• of Diplomacy and Human Rights USIDHR, under

the supervision of Professor Isabel Valdoiu

Her published translations:

• Announced talks, a collection of interviews, Dar Mamdouh Adwan 2018.
• Mutations, Dar Takween 2020. Written by Jorge Comnesal.
• A letter to Stalin, Dar Mamdouh Adwan 2021. Written by Fernando Arrbal.
• Malak Al-Jalil (sweet company), Dar Al-Mada 2022. Written by Laura Restrepo.