Sapienza University of Rome - Italy

Faculty Member, Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali - ISO

Professor

About

Full professor in Arabic Modern Literature at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” – Italy
Member of the Jury of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (Booker)
Member of the Doctorate Committee for post-graduate research students on “Civilization, culture and societies of Asia and Africa” of Sapienza University of Roma – Italy (2010-2011).
Member of the Doctorate Committee for post-graduate research students “Doctorado Estudis Culturals Mediterranis", Universitat Rovira i Virgili  Tarragona (Spain)
Member of the scientific committee of the journal Oriente Moderno (Rome, Istituto per l’Oriente).
AWARDS
• Grinzane Cavour Prize, for Translation, 2006
• Literary Award for Translation - Supreme Council of Culture, Cairo 2006.
• “S. Girolamo Prize” for Translation -  AITI – (Associazione Italiana Traduttori e Interpreti), XVII edition, 1995.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
She specializes in contemporary Arabic literature and has worked with a number of Italian publishing houses to promote Arabic culture in Italy.
Since 1993 she has been Editor in chief of the Contemporary Arab Writers series (“Scrittori Arabi Contemporanei ") of the Jouvence publishing house which has so far published  40 novels by outstanding contemporary Arab authors.
She has lectured a number of Italian, European and Arab Universities. She has taken part to different meetings about Arabic contemporary literature in universities and institutions in Italy, Europe and in the Arabic world.
She has been a member of the European translating project “Mémoires de la Mediteranée”, promoted by the Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam.
She is member of the Italian Ministry of Culture’s Commission for the “National Translation Prize”.
She is member of «Sharjah Prize» for Arab Culture, UNESCO

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