Raphael Cohen

Was born in 1965 in Brighton (UK) and grew up in south London. After finishing school, Cohen learned some Hebrew and basic Arabic. He is a British literary translator and editor. He holds a BA in Oriental Studies at University of Oxford and has been awarded a Century Fellowship at the University of Chicago. He published translations include the novels So You Can See by Mona Prince (AUC Press, 2011); Ahlem Mostaghanemi’s Bridges of Constantine (Bloomsbury, 2014) and George Yarak’s Guard of the Dead (AUC Press, 2019); the poetry collection Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021); and the non-fiction The Jewish Agency and Syria During the Arab Revolt in Palestine by Mahmoud Muhareb (I. B. Taurus, 2023).

He translated Marwan Makhoul's poems into English.