Samia Mehrez

Samia Mehrez is professor emerita of Arabic literature in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations and founder of the Center for Translation Studies at the American University in Cairo (2009-2021). She is the author of Egyptian Writers between History and Fiction (AUC Press, 1994) and Egypt's Culture Wars (2008) , and the editor of The Literary Atlas of Cairo , The Literary Life of Cairo, and Translating Egypt's Revolution: The Language of Tahrir (AUC Press, 2010, 2011, 2012).

Samia Mehrez is professor emerita of Arabic literature in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations and founder of the Center for Translation Studies at the American University in Cairo (2009-2021). She is the author of Egyptian Writers between History and Fiction (AUC Press, 1994) and Egypt's Culture Wars (2008) , and the editor of The Literary Atlas of Cairo , The Literary Life of Cairo, and Translating Egypt's Revolution: The Language of Tahrir (AUC Press, 2010, 2011, 2012). See less