Nancy Roberts

is the translator of Egyptian author Salwa Bakr's The Man from Bashmour, which was commended for the 2008 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.

She has translated a number of fiction works by Egyptian authors, including The Mirage by Naguib Mahfouz (AUC Press), Mohamed el-Bisatie's Over the Bridge (AUC Press, 2006) and Hala  El-Badry's Muntaha (AUC Press, 2006); also three novels by Syrian author Ghada Samman, The Night of the First Billion, Beirut Nightmares and Beirut ’75, which won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award for best manuscript.

Over a number of years, Nancy Roberts has worked in the areas of ancient and modern Arabic literature, health care, law, current events, Christian-Muslim relations, Islamic law and Islamic thought and history.