Élie Nio is a senior undergraduate student at the University of Iowa, majoring in International Studies, who recently got an internship with Global Ties Iowa.

Osama Khalid, MA student in Linguistics, was selected as one of the 2022-2023 graduate teaching fellows in the Center for Teaching in the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology (OTLT).

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The Faculty Fellow in Residence will be fully integrated into an energetic translation environment of emerging and seasoned translators and will gain a comprehensive understanding of and hands-on experience in the diverse dimensions of translation training. Fellows are expected to be in residence for the academic year and participate fully in the life of the Translation Program.

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Professor Ari Ariel was featured in a new podcast on the Forgotten Exodus of Yemeni Jews.

Vala Thorodds is a poet, publisher, and editor, as well as a translator from Icelandic to English. Her work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, Granta, and The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, and she recently received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for her translation of the novel Swanfolk by Kristín Ómarsdóttir, published in 2022. Her translation of Ómarsdóttir’s selected poems, Waitress in Fall, was a White Review and Sunday Times poetry book of the year. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she was awarded an Iowa Arts Fellowship.

The award, through the US Department of Education, will support a proposed center that will leverage Iowa’s strengths in writing, translation, teacher education and international studies.