Professor of English Language & Literature

Nadia El Kholy is Professor of English Language & Literature at Cairo University. She was the Cultural Counsellor at the Egyptian Embassy in London from 2012-2015. She served as Director of the National Council for Children’s Culture, was a member of the jury for the Hans Christian Anderson international award for Children's Literature and is currently a member of the IBBY (international Board of Books for Young Readers) Executive Committee as well as President of the Egyptian Board of Books for Young Readers (EBBY).  Her research interests include writing and translation for children, Comparative and Postcolonial Literature, and Gender Studies. She has contributed to the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Children's Literature, was co-editor of the Women Writing Africa series published by the Feminist Press in New York, and the ASTENE publication Egypt in the Eyes of Travellers. She has published a number of articles on the modern Arabic and English novel, children’s literature and has translated Alice in Wonderland into Arabic.