Melanie Magidow (editor/translator) is an independent scholar and professional translator with a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of Texas at Austin. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Fulbright Commission. She lives in Rhode Island.

FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH, making this a major translation event.

AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATION: The translator was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Grant in support of the translation.

A FRESH, FEMALE-CENTERED PERSPECTIVE ON THE MIDDLE EAST-a culture in which women are literally covered up and hidden from view-in the tradition of recent bestsellers that put women at the center of stories long dominated by men, like Emily Wilson's translation of Homer's Odyssey and Madeline Miller's Circe.

FEATURED IN THE BESTSELLING BOOK REJECTED PRINCESS: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics: Princess Fatima will be a welcome discovery for readers who've fueled the success of Rejected Princesses as well as other books spotlighting women in history, like Women in Science and The Little Book of Feminist Saints, and of projects like The New York Times's "Overlooked" series.

SUPERHEROES: Princess Fatima features in television cartoons and comic books in the Arab world, making her as much a fixture of Arabic pop culture as the Marvel and DC Comics superheroes are of American pop culture-an Arab-world counterpart to Wonder Woman, Jessica Jones, Xena the Warrior Princess, Katniss Everdeen, and Mulan. The Tale of Princess Fatima has the potential to do for Middle Eastern superheroes what Black Panther and Marlon James's Black Leopard, Red Wolf did for African superheroes.

A FEMALE, ARAB KING ARTHUR: Like King Arthur with his Knights of the Round Table, Princess Fatima is at the center of a group of male and female heroes, and her adventures are as familiar to people in the Middle East as King Arthur's are to us in the West.

MAJOR ARABIC TEXT WITH STRONG COURSE ADOPTION POTENTIAL, and a welcome addition to the canon of Middle Eastern literature in English for teaching alongside the ubiquitous Arabian Nights.