Angele Botros Samaan (1923-2011) was an

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academic and translator.

Biography

Dr Angele Botros Samaan was born the 3rd of October 1923 in

Marsa Matrouh Mersa Matruh ( ar, مرسى مطروح, translit=Marsā Maṭrūḥ, ), also transliterated as ''Marsa Matruh'', is a port in Egypt and the capital of Matrouh Governorate. It is located west of Alexandria and east of Sallum on the main highway ...

(Egypt) and she died the 22nd of November 2011 in Cairo. She obtained a BA (with Honours) and MA degree from the Faculty of Arts Department of English Literature and Language in

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

. She obtained her PhD from London University in 1962, with a thesis untitled ''The Novel of Utopianism and Prophecy From Lytton (1871) to Orwell (1949) With Special Reference to Its Reception''. Her supervisor was Professor Tillotson. She then returned to Cairo and worked at Cairo University for many years in the Department of English Literature and Language. She specialized in the English novel starting from the 19th century until modern novel. She supervised many Masters and PhD theses. She published critical articles in Egypt and abroad in the areas of the English novel, particularly the modern novel, the Arabic and African novel in addition to Utopian writings, translation and women studies both in English and Arabic. She is best known as the co-translator of ''Sugar Street'', the third volume of the ''

Cairo Trilogy The ''Cairo Trilogy'' ( ar, الثلاثية ''ath-thulathia'' ('The Trilogy') or ''thulathia al-Qahra'') is a trilogy of novels written by the Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, and one of the prime works of his literary c ...

'' by Egyptian Nobel laureate

Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( arz, نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...

. She also translated

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'' from English to Arabic. A new edition of this last translation was published in 2021 by Al-Mada, Baghdad, Iraq. Dr Angele Botros Samaan was member of the

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("consultative council", the upper house of the formerly bicameral Parliament of Egypt), 1983 - 1989, and member of the National Assembly. She was also member of the Translation Committee of the Supreme Council for Culture, the International Society of Friends of Thomas More
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, the Board of the University Women Association in Cairo, the Egyptian Women Writers' Association, and Egypt correspondent of the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE). A

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in her honour was published in 1995, under the title ''Essays in Honour of Angele B. Samaan''.

Publications

In Arabic

* ''Bayn al-riwā’i wa al-riwāyah (The Novel and the Novelist)'', Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop, Cairo 1972 * ''The English Novel'', 1977 * ''Studies in the English Novel'', 1981 * ''Studies in the Arabic Novel'', 1987

In English

* ''Views on the art of the Novel'', Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop, Cairo 1965 * ''C.S. Lewis: The Utopianist and His Critics'', 1966, Cairo Studies in English pp. 137–166 * Critical introductions to : Joseph Conrad, ''Heart of Darkness'', 1970 * ''Utopias and Utopian Novels, 1516-1949, A Preliminary Bibliography'', Moreana, Angers, Nov. 1971 * James Joyce, ''A portrait of the Artist as A Young Man'', 1977, 1987 * ''The English novel in Arabic Translation: 1940-1973, A preliminary Bibliography'', « Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, XXXII, 1978, pp. 85–128 * Essay on George Eliot ''The Developing Image of the Heroine'', Centenary Essays on George Eliot. Ed. Magdi Wahba. Cairo: Cairo Studies in English, 1981. pp. 119–174. * ''News From Egypt'', Moreana XIX, pp. 75–76 (Nov.1982), p. 111-112 * ''Death and the Death-Penalty in More’s Utopia and Some Utopian Novels'', Moreana 23.90 (June 1986): pp. 5–15 * D.H. Lawrence, ''Sons and Lovers'', 1990 * ''Arabic Literature in Egypt in English Translation : A Bibliography'', Compiled by Angele Botros Samaan * ''Women in Society : Egypt'', Singapore Times Publishing, 1993 * ''A voice of their Own: Short Stories by Egyptian Women'', Cairo:Prism Publications, Prism Literary Series #4, Published by Foreign Cultural Information Dept. 1994, 1998 * Review in Utopian Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 1995, pp. 121–123.

Translations into Arabic

* Chinua Achebe, ''Things Fall Apart'', 1971 * Thomas More, ''Utopia'', trans.''Yūtubyā or Ūtūbyah'', ed. Cairo: Dar el-Maaref, 1974, 1987, 2021

Translations into English

* Nehad Gad, ''Adila'' and ''The Bus Stop : Two One-Act Plays'', General Egyptian Book Organization, Cairo, 1987 * Naguib Mahfouz, ''Al-Sukkaria (Sugar Street)'', 1992

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Samaan, Angele Botros 2011 deaths Egyptian translators Cairo University alumni Arabic–English translators 1923 births Egyptian women academics Cairo University faculty