Nancy N. Roberts

Nancy N. Roberts is an award-winning translator of Arabic literature.^[1] 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
• Muntaha by Hala El-Badry
• Time of White Horses by Ibrahim Nasrallah
• Over the Bridge by Mohamed el-Bisatie
• Love in the Rain by Naguib Mahfouz
• The Mirage by Naguib Mahfouz
• The Man from Bashmour by Salwa Bakr
• House of the Wolf by Ezzat el Kamhawi

She won the Arkansas Arabic 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 her translation of Salwa Bakr's The Man from Bashmour.^[2]

Roberts has also translated works on Islamic history, jurisprudence and Sufism. These include:

• Islamic Jurisprudence According to the Four Sunni Schools, Volume I: Modes of Islamic Worship by Abd al-Rahman Ibn Muhammad Awad al-Jaziri
• The Jurisprudence of the Prophetic Biography, a translation of Fiqh al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah (فقه السيرة النبوية) by Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti
• Apostasy in Islam by Taha Jabir Alalwani

See also

• List of Arabic-English translators

References