Arabic-English translator and scholar
Nancy N. Roberts is a translator of Arabic literature.[1] 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 her translation of Salwa Bakr's The Man from Bashmour.[2]
Early life and education
She was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. She completed her undergraduate studies in Psychology and religious studies at Western Kentucky University. Then she did a graduate degree in M.S.Applied linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington and went abroad. She lived in Lebanon for one year and five years in Kuwait and returned for about 7 years and she did M.A.Arabic language and Literature at Indiana University. She settled in Jordan and lived there from 1995 until 2015.[3]
Career
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- Indiana University-Bloomington, associate instructor in English, 1980-81.
- American University of Beirut, Lebanon, instructor in English, 1981-82.
- Kuwait University, Kuwait City, instructor of English in College of Commerce, 1982-87.
- Earlham College, Richmond, IN, instructor in English as a second language, 1988-90.
- Indiana University-Bloomington, instructor in Arabic, 1991-93.
- AL al-Bayt University, Mafraq, Jordan, instructor in English as a second language, 1994-97.
- Federal Broadcasting Information Service, Jordan Bureau, translator, 1998-99.
- Free-lance translator, Amman, Jordan, 1999-.
- Mitchell Translations, translator from Arabic to English, 1994.
Works
Selected Translations:
Roberts has also translated works on Islamic history, jurisprudence and Sufism. These include:
See also
References
