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About Ibrahim Fawzy
Ibrahim Fawzy is an Egyptian writer and literary translator working between Arabic and English. He holds an MFA in Literary Translation from Boston University and both a BA and MA in Comparative Literature from Fayoum University, Egypt. Fawzy’s translations have been featured in various literary outlets. His accolades include a 2024-25 Global Africa Translation Fellowship, a 2024 PEN Presents Award, and the 2024 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellowship from ALTA.NBN Episodes hosted by Ibrahim:
March 5, 2026
The Philosophy of Translation
The Philosophy of Translation (Yale UP, 2024) is a fresh, approachable, and convincing account of what translation really is and what translators actu…
January 30, 2026
Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist
In the public eye, Najati Sidqi was known as a journalist and writer, a translator of Russian classics, and an outspoken opponent of Nazism. However, …
January 28, 2026
Desert Imaginations
Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences (U California Press, 2025) traces the cultural and intellectual histories th…
November 4, 2025
Infected
In Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World’s Most Vulnerable (The New Press, 2025), Professor Muhammad H. Zaman rev…
September 17, 2025
Critical Conditions
Hadi Abdullah's Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution (DoppelHouse Press, 2025), translated by Alessandro Columbu, is no ordinary dia…
September 16, 2025
AI and Ada
Taking recent spectacular progress in AI fully into account, Mark Seligman's AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature (Anthem Pre…
June 4, 2025
The Collective Dream
The Collective Dream: Egyptians Longing For A Better Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) links two seminal moments in Egypt’s history – the Revolution of …
May 30, 2025
Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives
Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives: Hunger in Eden (Routledge, 2024) presents an intricate exploration into the life and literary universe of Mohame…
May 6, 2025
Garden of Egypt
Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm (University of Michigan Press, 2024) is the first environmental history of…
April 6, 2025
A Few Words about Words
Written by a self-taught grammarian, A Few Words About Words (Beaufort Books, 2021) offers an accessible and engaging guide to mastering the English l…
March 26, 2025
Imprisoning a Revolution
Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt’s Incarcerated (U California Press, 2025), edited by Collective Antigone, is a groundbreaking collection…
March 22, 2025
Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt
Ahmed M. Abozaid’s Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror (Routledge, 2021) reveals how counterterrorism disc…
March 16, 2025
Confetti and Ashes
Shahd Alshammari’s Confetti and Ashes: Reflections on Wellness (Literary Mentor Words for Wellness, 2025) is a speculative memoir that questions what …
December 15, 2024
Mega-Dams in World Literature
Margaret Ziolkowski’s Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building (University of Wyoming Press, 2022) reveals …
November 19, 2024
Complicit Participation
In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own complic…
November 19, 2024
We Wait for a Miracle
Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are dis…
May 18, 2024
River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation
What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonialism, gender, war, displacement, desir…
May 12, 2024
Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction
In 1960s Egypt, a group of writers exploded onto the literary scene, transforming the aesthetic landscape. Yasmine Ramadan’s Space in Modern Egyptian …
May 10, 2024
Translation Theory for the Practising Literary Translator
Do translation theorists observe what translators do and develop theories based on that? Do translators gain ideas and tools from studying theories? O…
May 2, 2024
Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility
The question of whether to acknowledge a text as a translation and thereby bring attention to the translator’s role has been a central topic in discus…
April 20, 2024
Undesired Revolution
Ahmed M. Abozaid’s Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt--A Three Level Analysis (Brill, 2023) introduces new non-Western perspectives on …
March 29, 2024
Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story
Zakariyya Tamir is Syria’s foremost writer of short stories, and his works are widely read across the Arab world. In Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics …
February 25, 2024
Narratives of Mistranslation
Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature (Routledge, 2023) offers unique insights into the role of the transla…