Joshua is an Arabic translator, editor, and designer with 10+ years of ethnographic and linguistic experience across North Africa and the Middle East.
He occasionally writes.
Reach out.
EDUCATION
MFA Arabic Translation & Creative Writing | University of Arkansas, 2019
Thesis: The Hanging Poems of Love and Loss: Translations from the Classic Poetry of Pre-Islamic Arabia
MA Applied Linguistics | Harvard University, 2013
BA Anthropology & Arabic Studies | University of Arkansas, 2012
Thesis: Imperialism, Independence, and Internal Strife in Western Sahara
EXPERIENCE
Creative Director | Lumengrave / Outward Cartography, 2020-Present
Arabic Interpretation & Translation | International Rescue Committee, 2018–2020
Translation Editor | The Arkansas International, 2016–2019
Magazine Designer | The Arkansas International, 2016–2019
Arabic Language Instructor | University of Arkansas, 2015–2019
Arabic Interpretation | National Geographic: Mauritania, Western Sahara, 2013–2015
Arabic Language Teaching Assistant | University of Arkansas, 2012–2013
English Instructor | Al-Wihdat Refugee Camp, Amman, 2010
“When reading this collection, I was first impressed by the active movement of sound within the lyric. The way sound and form play on the field of the page is both delicate and lingering as they attempt to deal with the temporal—death, nature, “artifacts” of relationships lost. The poet makes wise gestures for the simplicity of what is actually taking place. Here the spacing, like the writing as a whole, suggests setting, time, and discernment—all done with grace and deftness.”
AWARDS
Lily Peter Fellowship in Poetry | J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences, 2017
$15,000 award for a collection of three poems
Middle East Studies Travel Grant | King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies, 2011
$5,000 grant for linguistic research in Rabat, Morocco
Critical Language Scholarship | U.S. Dept. of State, 2010
Advanced Arabic study, Qasid Arabic Institute, Amman, Jordan
Critical Language Scholarship | U.S. Dept. of State, 2009
Beginner Arabic study, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Lowell D. Holmes Undergraduate Research Grant | Wichita State University, 2008
Ethnographic Research in Southern Morocco