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Professor, Director of the Center for Translation Studies, AUC
Samia Mehrez
The American University in Cairo
Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations, Center for Translation Studies.
74
New Cairo Campus, AUC Avenue
11835
Cairo
Egypt
samehrez@aucegypt.edu
PhD, Comparative Literature, UCLA, 1985.
MA, English and Comparative Literature, The American University in Cairo, 1979.
BA, Literature and Drama, The American University in Cairo 1977.
Arabic
English
French
Spanish
Italian
Modern Arabic literature
English and comparative literature
Drama, theatre and performance
Founding Director, Center for Translation Studies, American University in Cairo. Present.
Professor of Arabic Literature, American University in Cairo, Department of Arabic and Islamic Civilizations. Present.
Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University. 1984-1990.
Founding Member, Faculty for Palestine at AUC, 2001-Present.
Advisory Board, AUC Cairo to Camps Initiative, 2001-2003.
Vice Chair, Board of Directors, SSEE (Studio Emad El Din), 2004-Present.
Reader for Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, Fusul Literary Journal, Journal of Arabic Literature, Harvard University Press, Chicago University Press, and AUC Press, 1996-2006.
Her publications include: (ed.) Translating Egypt’s Revolution: The Language of Tahrir, AUC Press, 2012.; Egypt’s Culture Wars: Politics and Practice, Routledge, 2008.
Sonallah Ibrahim, “Cairo from Edge to Edge,” translation from Arabic, in Cairo from Edge to Edge, AUC Press, 1998, pp.6-20.
Participated in many workshops and conferences, including: The First International Forum on Translation and Activism, University of Granada, Spain, April 28-30, 2007.
Conference on Pre-modern Performance in the Eastern Mediterranean, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, June 7-9, 2007; The workshop on Nation and Translation, European Academy, Berlin, June 17-20, 2007.
International Who’s Who of Professionals, 2000.
Genevieve McMillan-Reba Stewart Chair, nominee, MIT, 1996.
Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Northwestern University, 1992.
Fellow, American Research Center in Egypt, 1989.
Faculty Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1987.
UCLA Woman of the Year Award, nominee, 1982.
