Sarah Enany ( ar, ساره عناني) is a literary translator. She has a PhD in drama and teaches at Cairo University. She has translated works by Yusuf Idris,

Mohamed Salmawy Mohamed Salmawy is a leading Egyptian intellectual whose writings are widely read throughout the Arab World. He is the former president of the Writers Union of Egypt and the secretary general of the General Union of Arab Writers. A former editor-in- ...

and Ahmed Aboul Gheit, but she is best known for her translation of the Galal trilogy by Kamal Ruhayyim.Sarah Enany, translator of Kamal Ruhayyim
/ref> The first volume of the trilogy, ''

Diary of a Jewish Muslim ''Diary of a Jewish Muslim'' is a 2014 book by Egyptian author Kamal Ruhayyim. It constitutes the first part of the "Galal trilogy", dealing with the life of Galal, an Egyptian boy with a Muslim father and a Jewish mother and spanning the 1930s t ...

'', was nominated for the

Banipal Prize The Banipal Prize, whose full name is the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, is an annual prize awarded to a translator (or translators) for the published English translation of a full-length literary work in the Arab ...

. Her translation of ''The Girl with Braided Hair'' by

Rasha Adly Rasha Adly (born 1976) (Arabic: رشا عدلي) is an Egyptian writer and art historian. She is the author of seven novels, two of which have been nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Early life and education Adly was born ...

was also nominated for the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation in 2021. She also authored the acclaimed Arabic translation of '' Les Misérables''.

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