Amira Nowaira (Arabic: أميرة نويرة) is an Egyptian academic, translator, columnist and author.[1] 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.[2] Apart from her own books, Nowaira has also done translations, both from Arabic to English (Ali Bader, Taha Hussein et al.) and from English to Arabic (Susan Bassnett, 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

See also

References

  1. Profile on Banipal website Archived June 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Amira Nowaira". the Guardian. Retrieved 2017-10-27.


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