List of Arabic-English translators

The following is a list of translators primarily translating literary works in the Arabic language into English editions that have been published in print. The leading prizes in this field of translation are the Banipal Prize, DarArab Translation Prize and the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award.

A

 * Farouk Abdel Wahab
 * Leila Abouzeid
 * Kareem James Abu-Zeid
 * Sinan Antoon
 * A. J. Arberry
 * Albakry Mohammed
 * Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot

B

 * Adil Babikir
 * Aida Bamia
 * Joseph Bell
 * Marilyn Booth
 * Keith Bosley
 * Angele Botros Samaan
 * Issa J. Boullata
 * Sargon Boulus
 * Paul Bowles
 * Leon Carl Brown
 * Richard Francis Burton

C

 * Anthony Calderbank
 * Yigal Carmon
 * Catherine Cobham
 * Thomas Cleary
 * Elliot Colla
 * Miriam Cooke
 * Michael Cooperson
 * Robyn Creswell

D

 * Humphrey T. Davies
 * N. J. Dawood

E

 * Abba Eban

F

 * Nicole Fares
 * Ahmed Fathy
 * Elizabeth Fernea
 * Bassam Frangieh

G

 * Ferial Ghazoul
 * Sayed Gouda
 * William Granara
 * William Alexander Greenhill

H

 * Marilyn Hacker
 * Hala Halim
 * Stuart A. Hancox
 * Nay Hannawi
 * Yasmeen Hanoosh
 * Michelle Hartman
 * Paula Haydar
 * Samuel Hazo
 * Sherif Hetata
 * William M. Hutchins

J

 * Elisabeth Jaquette
 * Salma Khadra Jayyusi
 * Zahra Jhishi
 * Denys Johnson-Davies
 * Fady Joudah

K

 * Reem Kelani

L

 * Trevor LeGassick
 * Frances Liardet
 * David Larsen, translator of Names of the Lion by Ibn Khalawayh (Wave Books, 2017), winner of the 2018 Harold Landon Morton Award.

M

 * Khaled al-Masri
 * Khaled Mattawa
 * Karen McNeil
 * James T. Monroe
 * Ibrahim Muhawi

N

 * Daniel L. Newman
 * Amira Nowaira
 * Osman Nusairi

O

 * Wen-chin Ouyang

Q

 * Tahera Qutbuddin

R

 * Jeremy Reed
 * Nancy N. Roberts
 * Barbara Romaine

S

 * Lily Sadowsky
 * Ahmad Sadri
 * Samah Selim
 * Saadi Simawe
 * Reuven Snir
 * Ahdaf Soueif
 * Paul Starkey
 * Raymond Stock

T

 * Maia Tabet
 * Peter Theroux
 * Christopher Tingley

V

 * John Verlenden

W

 * Magdi Wahba
 * Max Weiss
 * Lisa White
 * Jonathan Wright

Y

 * Nariman Youssef