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 The Banipal Prize, whose full name is the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, is an annual prize awarded to a translator (or translators) for the published English translation of a full-length literary work in the Arab ...

and the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award.

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Farouk Abdel Wahab Farouk Abdel Wahab Mustafa (Arabic: عبد الوهاب، فاروق; – 3 April 2013), pen name Farouk Abdel Wahab, was an Egyptian academic and translator based in the USA. He was born in Tanta and studied at the University of Cairo. He receiv ...

Leila Abouzeid Leila Abouzeid ( ar, ليلة أبو زيد) (born 1950, El Ksiba) is a Moroccan author.'Abu Zayd, Layla', in Simon Gikandi, ed., ''Encyclopedia of African Literature''. Routledge; 2002. . She writes in Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a ...

Kareem James Abu-Zeid Kareem James Abu-Zeid (born 1981) is an Egyptian-American translator, editor, and writer. He was born in Kuwait and grew up in the Middle East. He studied French and German language and literature at Princeton University, taking translation worksho ...

* Sinan Antoon * A. J. Arberry * Albakry Mohammed * Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot

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* Adil Babikir *

Aida Bamia Aida Adib Bamia is Emeritus, professor emeritus of Arabic language and literature at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, Gainesville. She is a specialist in North African literature. Her work on Arabic literature has helped to bring ...

* Joseph Bell * Marilyn Booth * Keith Bosley *

Angele Botros Samaan Angele Botros Samaan (1923-2011) was an Egyptian academic and translator. Biography Dr Angele Botros Samaan was born the 3rd of October 1923 in Marsa Matrouh (Egypt) and she died the 22nd of November 2011 in Cairo. She obtained a BA (with Honou ...

Issa J. Boullata Issa J. Boullata (‎; February 25, 1929 – May 1, 2019) was a Palestinian scholar, writer, and translator of Arabic literature. Biography He was born in Jerusalem on February 25, 1929 during the British Mandate of Palestine. He obtained ...

Sargon Boulus Sargon Boulus ( syr, ܣܪܓܘܢ ܦܘܠܘܨ; ar, سركون بولص) was an Iraqi poet, journalist and writer. Born in 1944, he died on 22 October 2007. Biography Boulus was born on 10 March, 1944 in Habbaniyah, Iraq, to Assyrian parents. ...

* Paul Bowles *

Leon Carl Brown Leon Carl Brown (April 22, 1928 – April 8, 2020) was a professor of history at Princeton University. Biography Brown was the Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs, Emeritus, and professor of Near Eastern studies, emeritus, at Princeton University ...

* Richard Francis Burton

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* Anthony Calderbank *

Yigal Carmon Yigal Carmon (Hebrew יגאל כרמון) (born 1946) is the president and cofounder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an organization which monitors and translates Arabic and Persian publications; radio and TV broadcasts; and re ...

* Catherine Cobham * Thomas Cleary *

Elliot Colla Elliott Colla is an American scholar of the Middle East, specializing in Arabic literature and culture. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. Career Colla received a B.A ...

* Miriam Cooke * Michael Cooperson * Robyn Creswell

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* Humphrey T. Davies *

N. J. Dawood Nessim Joseph Dawood (27 August 1927 – 20 November 2014) was an Iraqi Jewish translator, who is best known for his translation of the Quran. Life Nessim Joseph Dawood was born in Baghdad to a Jewish family. His family name was Yehuda, but in the ...

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* Abba Eban

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* Nicole Fares * Ahmed Fathy * Elizabeth Fernea *

Bassam Frangieh Bassam Frangieh (Arabic: بسام فرنجيه) is a scholar of contemporary Arabic literature and culture. He is best known for his pedagogical innovations in the study of the Arabic language, as well as his translations of modern Arabic poets ...

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Ferial Ghazoul Ferial Jabouri Ghazoul is an Iraqi scholar, critic, and translator. She was educated in Iraq, Lebanon, Britain, France, and the USA. She obtained her PhD in comparative literature from Columbia University in 1978. Currently, she is chair and profe ...

Sayed Gouda Sayed Gouda (born in Cairo) is an Egyptian poet, novelist and translator. He majored in the Chinese language. Dr Sayed Gouda was born in Cairo and moved to Hong Kong where he currently resides. He did his undergraduate studies in Egypt and Ch ...

William Granara William Granara is an American author, translator and scholar of Arabic language and literature. He studied at Georgetown University and the University of Pennsylvania, obtaining his PhD from the latter in Arabic and Islamic studies. He has worked ...

William Alexander Greenhill William Alexander Greenhill (1 January 1814, Stationers' Hall, London – 19 September 1894, Hastings) was an English physician, literary editor and sanitary reformer. Biography William Alexander Greenhill was the youngest of three sons of Georg ...

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* Marilyn Hacker *

Hala Halim Hala Halim is an Egyptian academic and translator. She studied literature at university, obtaining a BA from Alexandria University in 1985 and an MA from the American University in Cairo in 1992. She completed her doctorate at UCLA in 2004. Halim ...

Stuart A. Hancox Stuart Hancox is a literary translator and gained an MFA in Literary Translation and Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He was also a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at UArk. Since 2003, he has been wo ...

Nay Hannawi Nay Hannawi is a Lebanese translator. She obtained a bachelor's degree at the American University in Beirut and an MFA in translation at the University of Arkansas. Since 2002, she has been teaching English language and literature at the Arab O ...

* Yasmeen Hanoosh * Michelle Hartman *

Paula Haydar Paula Haydar (born 1965) is an American academic and translator. She has a PhD in Comparative literature and an MFA in Literary translation. She won an Arkansas Arabic Translation Prize for her translation of Elias Khoury's ''The Kingdom of S ...

Samuel Hazo Samuel Robert Hazo (born 1966) is an American composer, primarily of music for concert band. Biography Hazo is the son of the poet and playwright Samuel John Hazo and his wife, Mary Anne. After elementary and secondary schooling in the Upp ...

* Sherif Hetata *

William M. Hutchins William Maynard Hutchins (born October 11, 1944) is an American academic, author and translator of contemporary Arabic literature. He was formerly a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Appalachian State University in Boone, No ...

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* Elisabeth Jaquette * Salma Khadra Jayyusi * Zahra Jhishi *

Denys Johnson-Davies Denys Johnson-Davies (Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز) (also known as Abdul Wadud) was an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who translated, ''inter alia,'' several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Su ...

* Fady Joudah

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* Reem Kelani

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Trevor LeGassick Trevor LeGassick (August 19, 1934June 21, 2022) was a noted Western scholar and translator in the field of Arabic literature. He obtained a BA in Arabic from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1958 and completed a PhD, also from SOAS, in ...

* Frances Liardet * David Larsen, translator of ''Names of the Lion'' by Ibn Khalawayh ( Wave Books, 2017), winner of the 2018 Harold Landon Morton Award.

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Khaled al-Masri Khaled El-Masri (also Khalid El-Masri and Khaled Masri, Levantine Arabic pronunciation: , ar, خالد المصري) (born 29 June 1963) is a German and Lebanese citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police in 2003, and handed o ...

* Khaled Mattawa *

Karen McNeil Karen MacNeil (born 1954) is an American author, journalist, wine educator and consultant. Career MacNeil's first article, on the subject of the best butter on offer in New York delis, was published in '' The Village Voice.'' She transitioned to ...

James T. Monroe James Thomas Monroe, or James T. Monroe, is an American scholar and translator of Arabic. He is emeritus professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California at Berkeley, focusing on Cla ...

* Ibrahim Muhawi

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* Daniel L. Newman *

Amira Nowaira Amira Nowaira ( ar, أميرة نويرة) is an Egyptian 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 Unive ...

Osman Nusairi Osman Nusairi is a playwright and award-winning translator of Sudanese origin. He has translated two Arabic novels into English - Nawal el-Saadawi's ''Two Women in One'' (1985; co-translator with Jana Gough) and Reem Bassiouney's ''The Pistachio Se ...

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Wen-chin Ouyang Wen-chin Ouyang, () is a professor of Arabic literature and comparative literature at SOAS, University of London.Ben EastWill Arab novel expert judge for 2015 Man Booker International Prize help region’s chances? The National, October 14, 2013. ...

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Tahera Qutbuddin Tahera Qutbuddin (born 1964, Bombay) is a professor of Arabic literature at the University of Chicago. A Guggenheim Fellow (2020) and a winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2021, she is best known for her works on Arabic oratory and the usage ...

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* Jeremy Reed *

Nancy N. Roberts Nancy N. Roberts is a translator of Arabic literature. She won the University of Arkansas Translation Award for her translation of Ghada Samman's '' Beirut '75''. She also received a commendation from the judges of the 2008 Banipal Prize for he ...

Barbara Romaine Barbara Romaine (born 1959) is an academic and translator of Arabic literature. From 2008 to 2021 she taught in the Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University, where she also edited a periodical, ''Writing in Tongues: A G ...

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Ahmad Sadri Ahmad Sadri is an Iranian sociologist, author, and translator. He is the James P. Gorter Professor of Islamic World Studies and Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Lake Forest College. He is the twin brother and collaborator of Mahmoud Sadri. ...

* Samah Selim *

Saadi Simawe Sa'adi Simawe (1946 – February 19, 2017) was an Iraqi American author, teacher and translator, who has published many articles in English language, English and Arabic language, Arabic, both original and in translation, and a novel (in Arabic) Al- ...

* Reuven Snir *

Ahdaf Soueif Ahdaf Soueif ( ar, أهداف سويف; born 23 March 1950) is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator. Early life Soueif was born in Cairo, where she lives, and was educated in Egypt and England. She studied for a PhD in lin ...

* Paul Starkey *

Raymond Stock Raymond T. Stock is an American academic, writer and translator. He has a BA in Mass Media/Foreign Affairs from Grand Valley State University (1980), and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (1983). He compl ...

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Maia Tabet Maia Tabet is an Arabic-English literary translator with a background in editing and journalism. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1956, she was raised in Lebanon, India, and England. She studied philosophy and political science at the American Universi ...

Peter Theroux Peter Christopher Sebastian Theroux (born 1956) is an American translator and writer. The younger brother of writers Alexander Theroux and Paul Theroux, during college Peter studied for a year at the University of Cairo. He became interested in Ar ...

Christopher Tingley Christopher Tingley is an English academic and translator of Arabic literature. He was born in Brighton and read English at the University of London ( MPhil 1973) and at Leeds University, for many years lecturing in English and linguistics at vari ...

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John Verlenden John Verlenden is an American academic, writer and award-winning translator of Arabic literature. He obtained a BA in English literature from Rhodes College in 1986 followed by an MFA in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University in 1988. He ...

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Magdi Wahba Magdi Wahba (1925–1991) was an Egyptian university professor, Johnsonian scholar, and lexicographer. He was born in Alexandria in 1925, the son of a high court judge (Mourad Wahba Pasha) and later cabinet minister. His mother had been educate ...

* Max Weiss * Lisa White * Jonathan Wright

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Nariman Youssef Nariman Youssef is an Egyptian translator. She obtained a BSc in computer science from the American University in Cairo before moving to the UK for graduate studies. She has master's degrees from Birkbeck College and the University of Edinburgh, a ...

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