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Amira Nowaira ( Arabic: أميرة نويرة) is an Egyptian academic, translator, columnist and author. [1] She gained her doctorate in English literature from Birmingham University. She has served as chair of the English department at Alexandria University, and is currently a professor there. She has published a number scholarly books and journal articles. More recently, she has contributed journalistic pieces to The Guardian. [2] Apart from her own books, Nowaira has also done translations, both from Arabic to English ( Ali Bader, Taha Hussein et al.) and from English to Arabic ( Susan Bassnett, Randa Abdel-Fattah et al.).