Nancy N. Roberts

Nancy 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
• 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.

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 al-Jadiri
• 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