Amira Nowaira ( ar, أميرة نويرة) is an
Egyptian
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academic, translator, columnist and author. She gained her doctorate in English literature from
Birmingham University. She has served as chair of the English department at
Alexandria University, and is currently a professor there. She has published a number scholarly books and journal articles. More recently, she has contributed journalistic pieces to ''
The Guardian
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''.
Apart from her own books, Nowaira has also done translations, both from Arabic to English (
Ali Bader
Ali Bader (Arabic علي بدر) is an Iraqi novelist, poet, poetry translator, script writer, critic, regarded as the most significant writer to emerge in Arabic world, in the last decade. author of fifteen works of fiction, and several works o ...
,
Taha Hussein
Taha Hussein (, ar, طه حسين; November 15, 1889 – October 28, 1973) was one of the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a figurehead for the Nahda, Egyptian Renaissance and the modernism, modernist movem ...
''et al.'') and from English to Arabic (
Susan Bassnett
Susan Edna Bassnett, (born 21 October 1945) is a translation theorist and scholar of comparative literature. She served as pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Warwick for ten years and taught in its Centre for Translation and Comparative C ...
,
Randa Abdel-Fattah ''et al.'').
Books
As author/editor
* ''Islam, Gender and Modernity'' (author)
* ''Growing Up Feminist in a Muslim Land'' (author)
* ''Women Writing Africa: The Northern Region'' (co-editor)
As translator
* ''Zeina'' by
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic to English)
* ''Zubaida's Window'' by
Iqbal Qazwini (co-translator with
Azza El Kholy; Arabic to English)
* ''The Tobacco Keeper'' by
Ali Bader
Ali Bader (Arabic علي بدر) is an Iraqi novelist, poet, poetry translator, script writer, critic, regarded as the most significant writer to emerge in Arabic world, in the last decade. author of fifteen works of fiction, and several works o ...
(Arabic to English)
* ''
The Future of Culture in Egypt
''The Future of Culture in Egypt'' ( ar, مستقبل الثقافه في مصر ) is a 1938 book by the Egyptian writer Taha Hussein.
The book is a work of Egyptian nationalism advocating both independence and the adoption of various European ...
'' by
Taha Hussein
Taha Hussein (, ar, طه حسين; November 15, 1889 – October 28, 1973) was one of the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a figurehead for the Nahda, Egyptian Renaissance and the modernism, modernist movem ...
(Arabic to English)
* ''Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction'' by
Susan Bassnett
Susan Edna Bassnett, (born 21 October 1945) is a translation theorist and scholar of comparative literature. She served as pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Warwick for ten years and taught in its Centre for Translation and Comparative C ...
(English to Arabic)
* ''
Where the Streets Had a Name'' by
Randa Abdel Fattah (co-translator with
Nabil Nowaira; English to Arabic)
See also
*
List of Arabic-English translators
The following is a list of translators primarily translating literary works in the Arabic language into English editions that have been published in print. The leading prizes in this field of translation are the Banipal Prize and the Arkansas Arab ...
References
Egyptian writers
Egyptian translators
Arabic–English translators
Egyptian women writers
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Living people
Academic staff of Alexandria University
Year of birth missing (living people)
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