Lecturer in Arabic Literature and Translation

Sameh Hanna is a Lecturer in Arabic Literature and Translation at University of Leeds. He completed his PhD in Translation Studies at University of Manchester with a dissertation on the sociological reading of the Arabic translations of Shakespeare’s tragedies (2006).  Immediately after obtaining his PhD, he joined University College London (UCL) as an Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the humanities, then held a lectureship in Arabic and Translation Studies at the University of Salford from 2007. 

His research expertise is in the intersection of a number of fields, including Arabic literature, translation studies, theater studies, Shakespeare studies and the sociology of culture. His PhD dissertation on the sociology of Shakespeare translation into Arabic (2006) is the first full-length study to reflect on the methodological implications of the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu for the understanding of the Arabic translations of Shakespeare’s tragedies.  Sameh’s book entitled Bourdieu in Translation Studies: The Socio-cultural Dynamics of Shakespeare Translation in Egypt will be published in April 2016 with Routledge.