Tabet is noted for her translation of two novels by the late Lebanese author Elias Khoury: Little Mountain and White Masks.
In 2017, her translation of Sinan Antoon's Ya Mariam was published as The Baghadad Eucharist (AUC Press/Hoopoe), and The Monotonous Chaos of Existence (Mason Jar Press), a collection of short stories by Jordanian author, poet, and activist Hisham Bustani, came out in early 2022.
Her seventh book-length work, provisionally titled Children of the Dew, by the late Palestinian author, poet, and journalist Mohammad al-As'ad, is forthcoming.
Tabet has also translated short stories, novel excerpts, and lyrical essays by Iman Humaydan, Najwa Barakat, Alawiya Subh, Hala Kawtharani, Abbas Beydoun, and Elias Khoury (Lebanon); Khaled Khalifa and Zakaria Tamer (Syria); Elias Farkouh and Hisham Bustani (Jordan); Ahmed Fagih (Libya); Habib Selmi (Tunisia); Luay Hamza Abbas (Iraq); Ali Muqri (Yemen); Amir Tag Elsir (Sudan); Bassam Almusallam, Jassim Al-Shammarie, and Estabraq Ahmad (Kuwait); and Ziad Abdallah (UAE).
[1] In addition to her commitment to social justice issues and the environment, maia tabet has an abiding interest in the history of food and the art of cooking.