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I. Rida Mahmood

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February 13, 1983

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Ibtihal Rida Mahmood (Arabic: ابتهال رضا محمود) is a Kuwait-born Jordanian-American translator, journalist, and poet of Palestinian origin. She received a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Jordan in 2005, and a master's degree in Middle Eastern studies from the University of Washington in 2018. She is currently based in the New England region of the United States. ...more

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Dubliners, by James Joyce
The Red and the Black, by Stendhal
Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham
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