List of Arabic-English translators
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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 Arabic Translation Award
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Arkansas Arabic Translation Award
The Arkansas Arabic Translation Award is a prize given for a notable English translation of a book-length literary work originally written in the Arabic language. The award is administered by the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Arkansas...
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- Akef Abadir
- Farouk Abdel Wahab
- Bashar AbdulahBashar AbdulahBashar Abdulah الشاعر بشارعبدالله Mosul Iraq, a Najii Nauman Prize winning Iraqi post-modernist poet, novelist and translator...
- Hosam M. Aboul-Ela
- Leila AbouzeidLeila AbouzeidLeila Abouzeid is a Moroccan author. She writes in Arabic rather than in French and is the first Moroccan woman writer of literature to be translated into English.- Works :...
- Rafah Abu Ennab
- Tagreid Abu-Hassabo
- Deborah AkersDeborah AkersDeborah S. Akers Ph.D., JD. is an assistant professor of Cultural Applied Anthropology at Miami University, Ohio.She is both an author and researcher and currently has a segment with Talk Radio News, DC where she discuss her research findings on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and meditation and...
- Roger AllenRoger AllenRoger Allen may refer to:*Roger MacBride Allen , American science fiction author*Roger Allen , former territorial level politician from Northwest Territories, Canada...
- Omnia Amin
- Piers Amodia
- Sinan AntoonSinan AntoonSinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet and novelist, he also featured in the film About Baghdad and Voices in Wartime.Antoon was born in Baghdad to an Iraqi father and American mother. After emigrating to the United States after the Gulf war, he studied English literature at Baghdad University, and...
- A. J. Arberry
- Thomas Aplin
- Forster Fitzgerald ArbuthnotForster Fitzgerald ArbuthnotForster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot was a notable British Orientalist and translator. His early career was spent as a civil servant in India; his last post was as Collector for the Bombay government. He was named after his grandfather, Field Marshal Sir John FitzGerald...
- A.B. As-Safi
- Ali Azeriah
- Ramses Awad
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- M. M. Badawi
- Abubaker Bagader
- Aida BamiaAida BamiaAida Bamia is professor emeritus of Arabic language and literature at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Currently, she is an Arabic language and literature professor at the University of Michigan...
- Joseph BellJoseph BellJoseph Bell, JP, DL, FRCS was a famous Scottish lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century. He is perhaps best known as an inspiration for the literary character Sherlock Holmes....
- Sophie BennettSophie BennettSophie Bennett is a Canadian actress and singer. She is probably best known for her co-starring role as Stevie Lake in the popular Australian television series, The Saddle Club, alongside Keenan MacWilliam and Lara Jean Marshall....
- Allison Blecker
- Marilyn BoothMarilyn Booth-Biography:Booth graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1978, and was the first female winner of the Wendell Scholarship. She obtained a D.Phil. in Arabic literature and Middle Eastern history from St Antony's College, Oxford in 1985. She received a Marshall Fellowship for her...
- Keith BosleyKeith BosleyKeith Bosley is a British poet and language expert.Bosley was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, grew up in Maidenhead, Berkshire...
- Angele Botros SamaanAngele Botros SamaanAngele Botros Samaan was an Egyptian academic and translator. She obtained a BA and an MA degree from Cairo University and later served as a professor in the university's English department for many years. She wrote a number of books and scholarly articles in both English and Arabic.She is best...
- Issa J. BoullataIssa J. BoullataIssa J. Boullata is a Palestinian scholar, writer, and translator of Arabic literature. He was born in Jerusalem on 25 February 1929 during the British Mandate of Palestine. He obtained a First Class BA in Arabic and Islamic studies in 1964 followed by a PhD in Arabic literature in 1969, both...
- Sargon BoulusSargon BoulusSargon Boulus was an Iraqi-Assyrian poet and short story writer.He was born in Habbaniyah, Iraq. In 1967, he left for Beirut, where he worked as a journalist and a translator. He later emigrated to the United States, and from 1968 lived in San Francisco. He studied comparative literature at the...
- Paul BowlesPaul BowlesPaul Frederic Bowles was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making various trips to Paris...
- Leon Carl Brown
- Richard Francis BurtonRichard Francis BurtonCaptain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas as well as his...
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- Anthony CalderbankAnthony CalderbankAnthony Calderbank is an English translator of contemporary Arabic literature. He was educated at Manchester University where he studied Arabic and Persian. He lived in Egypt for several years in the mid-1980s, making his home in the Cairo neighbourhood of Shubra...
- Yigal CarmonYigal CarmonYigal Carmon is the president and founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute , an organization which monitors and translates Arabic and Persian publications, radio and TV broadcasts and religious sermons into many languages and circulates them over the Internet.-Career:*Colonel, IDF...
- Jayson Casper
- Peter ClarkPeter ClarkPeter Clark may refer to:* Peter Clark , retired English professional footballer* Peter Clark , British historian* Peter D. Clark , Canadian politician...
- Catherine CobhamCatherine CobhamCatherine Cobham is a scholar and translator of Arabic literature. She obtained a BA from Leeds University and an MA from Manchester University and presently teaches at the University of St Andrews...
- Elliot Colla
- Charlene Constable
- Miriam CookeMiriam CookeMiriam Cooke is an American born, British trained academic in Middle Eastern/Arab world studies. She focuses on modern Arabic literature, and connecting women's narratives of war stories to a critical reassessment of their role in the public sphere....
- Michael CoopersonMichael CoopersonMichael Cooperson is an American scholar and translator of Arabic literature. He is currently associate professor of Arabic at UCLA. He has written two book: Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun and Al-Mamun . He is also the translator of a number of works...
- Tristan Cranfield
- Robyn Creswell
- Judith Cumberbatch
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- Abba EbanAbba EbanAbba Eban was an Israeli diplomat and politician.In his career he was Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, and ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations...
- Shirley Eber
- Rasheed El-Enany
- Mona El-Ghobashy
- Maged el Kommos
- Nora Eltahawy
- Thomas G. Ezzy
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- Ahmed FathyAhmed FathyAhmed Fathy is an Egyptian international football player. He currently plays for El-Ahly in the Egyptian Premier League. He plays a variety of roles in the midfield such as right midfielder and defensive midfielder and occasionally in the right back role for club and country.-Club career:Fathy...
- Essam Fattouh
- Elizabeth Fernea
- Peter FordPeter FordPeter S. Ford is an Australian CEO, author and former journalist.He was a television news anchor in the 1980s and 1990s in Australia and the USA, and was known in Australia for working at the Seven Network as an anchor for Seven News. He was also the first co-anchor of Sunrise which he presented...
- Nadia Fouda-Smart
- Bassam FrangiehBassam FrangiehBassam Frangieh 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 and novelists. Frangieh also lectures on the society and culture of the Arab world...
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- Ferial Ghazoul
- Sally Gomaa
- Camilo Gomez-Rivas
- Sayed GoudaSayed GoudaSayed Gouda is an Egyptian poet and novelist. He majored in the Chinese language. Sayed Gouda won a first prize of poetry in 1990 before he migrated to Hong Kong in 1992. He has four books of poetry in the Arabic language and a novel in the English language called Once Upon a Time in Cairo...
- Jana Gough
- William GranaraWilliam GranaraWilliam Granara is an American author, translator and scholar of 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 for the American University in Cairo and for the...
- William Alexander GreenhillWilliam Alexander GreenhillWilliam Alexander Greenhill was an English physician, literary editor and sanitary reformer.-Biography:...
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- Marilyn HackerMarilyn HackerMarilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York....
- Hala HalimHala HalimHala 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 from UCLA in 2004. Her PhD dissertation "The Alexandria Archive: An...
- Nora Halwani
- Stuart A. Hancox
- Nay HannawiNay HannawiNay 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...
- Yasmeen HanooshYasmeen HanooshYasmeen Hanoosh is an Iraqi academic and translator. She was born in Basra in 1978. She moved to the United States in 1995, subsequently obtaining a BA, MA and PhD from the University of Michigan. The title of her doctoral thesis, submitted in 2008, was "The Politics of Minority Chaldeans between...
- Barbara Harlow
- Michelle HartmanMichelle HartmanMichelle Hartman is an academic and translator. She obtained a BA from Columbia College in 1993 and a DPhil from Oxford University in 1998. She is currently an associate professor of Arabic and francophone literature at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. She is the author of a...
- Malak Hashem
- Waïl S. Hassan
- Basil Hatim
- Adnan Haydar
- Paula HaydarPaula HaydarPaula Haydar is an American academic and translator. She obtained a bachelor's degree in physics in 1987 and an M.Ed in 1991 from the University of Massachusetts. She then obtained an MFA in literary translation from the University of Arkansas...
- Ghenwa Hayek
- Samuel HazoSamuel HazoSamuel Robert Hazo is an American composer of primarily music for concert band.-Career:Samuel R. Hazo resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife and children. In 2003, Mr. Hazo became the first composer in history to be awarded the winner of both composition contests sponsored by the...
- Kay Heikkinen
- Kristin Walker Henry
- Sherif Hetata
- R Neil Hewison
- William M. HutchinsWilliam M. HutchinsWilliam Maynard Hutchins is an American academic, author and translator of contemporary Arabic literature. He is currently a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina....
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- Muhayman JamilMuhayman JamilMuhayman Jamil is an Iraqi doctor and literary translator. He was born in Baghdad and moved to the UK in the 1990s where he currently works as a specialist in palliative medicine....
- Lena Jayyusi
- May Jayyusi
- Salma Khadra Jayyusi
- Zahra Jhishi
- Rebecca C. Johnson
- Denys Johnson-DaviesDenys Johnson-DaviesDenys Johnson-Davies is an eminent Arabic-into-English literary translator who has translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.Davies, referred to as “the...
- Fady JoudahFady JoudahFady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet and physician. He is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for his collection of poems The Earth in the Attic.-Life:...
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- Samira Kawar
- James Kenneson
- Lorne Kenny
- Olive Kenny
- Thuraya Khalil-Khouri
- Azza El Kholy
- Hilary Kilpatrick
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- Judith Landry
- Trevor LeGassickTrevor LeGassickTrevor LeGassick is 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 1960. After stints in Wisconsin and Indiana, he joined the faculty of the...
- Frances LiardetFrances LiardetFrances Liardet is a writer and translator of Arabic literature. She has translated several book-length works, including two books by the modernist Egyptian writer Edwar al-Kharrat and one by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz....
- John Liechety
- Rick London
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- Fatma Moussa Mahmoud
- Dinah Manisty
- Khaled al-Masri
- Khaled MattawaKhaled MattawaKhaled Mattawa is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English...
- Leslie McLoughlin
- Karen McNeil
- Samia Mehrez
- Mona Mikhail
- Robin Moger
- James T. MonroeJames T. MonroeJames T. Monroe is an American scholar. He is emeritus professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, focusing on Classical Arabic Literature and Hispano-Arabic Literature...
- Suneela Mubayi
- Ibrahim Muhawi
- Shakir Mustafa
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- Kareem James Palmer-Zeid
- Barbara Parmenter
- John Peate
- Carol PerkinsCarol PerkinsCarol Perkins is an American business owner, fashion model and pet product designer who started her own company, Harry Barker, Inc., in 1997. The success of Harry Barker has garnered Perkins national media coverage from CNBC business shows and USA Today to Ladies' Home Journal and O magazines...
- Jennifer Peterson
- Kristin Peterson-Ishaq
- Christina Phillips
- Leri Price
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- Judith Radke
- Jeremy ReedJeremy ReedJeremy Thomas Reed is an American professional baseball outfielder who is a free agent.Reed graduated from Bonita High School in 1999, and went on to play college baseball at Long Beach State University...
- Karen E. Riley
- Nancy N. RobertsNancy N. RobertsNancy N. Roberts is an award-winning translator of Arabic literature. Among her literary translations to date are:* Beirut ’75 by Ghada Samman* Beirut Nightmares by Ghada Samman* The Night of the First Billion by Ghada Samman...
- John Rodenbeck
- Barbara Romaine
- Chip Rossetti
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- Mursi Saad El Din
- Jeffrey Sacks
- Hoda el Sadda
- Ahmad SadriAhmad SadriAhmad Sadri is a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Lake Forest College. He has been the James P. Gorter Professor of Islamic World Studies since 2007. Sadri received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Sociology from Tehran University, an MA and PhD from the New School for Social...
- Allen Salter
- Michael K Scott
- Nehad Selaiha
- Samah SelimSamah SelimSamah Selim is an Egyptian scholar and translator of Arabic literature. She studied English literature at Barnard College, and obtained her PhD from Columbia University in 1997. At present she is an assistant professor at Rutgers University...
- Saadi SimaweSaadi SimaweSa'adi Simawe is an Iraqi American author, teacher and translator, has published many articles in English and Arabic, both original and in translation, and a novel Al-Khuruj min al-Qumqum, London 1999...
- Nadine Sinno
- Andy SmartAndy SmartAndy Smart is an English comedian, actor, and TV panel show participant.Andy has been performing as a guest with The Comedy Store Players for 13 years now and a permanent member since 1995. Before joining the Players he was one half of the Vicious Boys with Angelo Abela...
- Jonathan Smolin
- Soad Sobhy
- Ahdaf SoueifAhdaf SoueifAhdaf Soueif is an Anglo-Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.-Life and career:Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England...
- Baria Ahmar Sreih
- Mary St. Germain
- Paul StarkeyPaul StarkeyPaul Starkey is a British scholar and translator of Arabic literature. He received his doctorate from Oxford University; the subject of his dissertation was the works of the Egyptian writer Tawfiq Hakim. He is currently the head of the Arabic department at the University of Durham...
- Desmond Stewart
- Philip StewartPhilip StewartPhilip Stewart, , is a British writer and academic.-History:He decided at an early age that he did not want to choose between arts and sciences. He took a first degree in 1961 at the University of Oxford, England in Arabic, then, as a young graduate IN 1962, translated a novel by Naguib Mahfouz...
- Raymond StockRaymond StockRaymond Stock is an American academic, writer and translator. He has a BA in Mass Media/Foreign Affairs from Grand Valley State University , and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor...
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- Maia Tabet
- Adam Talib
- M. M. Tawfik
- Peter TherouxPeter TherouxPeter Theroux is an American writer and translator. He studied English literature at Harvard University, and spent a year at the American University in Cairo...
- Christopher Tingley
- Sharkat M. Toorawa
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- Magdi WahbaMagdi WahbaMagdi Wahba was an Egyptian university professor, Johnsonian scholar, and lexicographer.He was born in Alexandria in 1925 the son of a high court judge and later cabinet minister. His mother had been educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and Oxford University...
- Nariman Khales Naili al-Warraki
- Wadida Wassif
- Max Weiss
- Lisa White
- Malcolm WilliamsMalcolm Williams (translator)Malcolm Williams is an English academic and literary translator. He studied Modern Arabic Studies at Durham University and, after spending a few years in the Middle East, proceeded to obtain a PhD in Arabic linguistics in the UK. As co-translator with Basil Hatim, he has translated Nawal...
- Jonathan WrightJonathan Wright (translator)Jonathan Wright is a British journalist and literary translator. He studied Arabic, Turkish and Islamic civilization at St John's College, Oxford. He joined the Reuters news agency in 1980 as a correspondent, and has been based in the Middle East for most of the last three decades...
See also
- Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary TranslationBanipal Prize for Arabic Literary TranslationThe Banipal Prize, formally known as the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, is an annual prize awarded to a translator for the published English translation of a full-length literary work in the Arabic language...
- Arkansas Arabic Translation AwardArkansas Arabic Translation AwardThe Arkansas Arabic Translation Award is a prize given for a notable English translation of a book-length literary work originally written in the Arabic language. The award is administered by the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Arkansas...