The BA Mourns the Loss of Prominent Translator Dr. Mohamed Enani
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina and its staff mourn, with great sadness and sorrow, the loss of the prominent Egyptian translator and critic Prof. Mohamed Enani, who passed away on Tuesday, 3 January 2023, hoping that God Almighty will bestow His mercy on him.
On behalf of the Library's administration and its entire staff, Prof. Ahmed Zayed, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, extends his sincere condolences to the family and students of Prof. Enani on this great loss, asking God Almighty to grant them patience and solace.
It is worth mentioning that Prof. Mohamed Enani was born in Rashid in 1939, and received a bachelor's degree in English from Cairo University in 1959, a master's degree from the University of London in 1970, and a PhD from the University of Reading in 1975. He has been a lecturer in English at Cairo University since 1975, and was head of its English Department between 1993 and 1999.
Over the course of nearly six decades, Prof. Enani has published around 130 books in Arabic and English, as his literary output comprised the fields of translation, criticism and authorship. His creative works include The Prisoner and the Jailer and A Spy in the Sultan's Palace, while his scholarly works on translation and literary criticism include Stylistic Translation, Analytical Criticism, and Literary Translation: Theory and Practice.”
His name also featured strongly in the translations of William Shakespeare's works, in addition to his landmark translation of Edward Said's book Orientalism and Milton's epic Paradise Lost, together with his English translation of many Arabic works, especially Taha Hussein's books, as well as several poetry collections and plays by a number of Egyptian poets.
Prof. Enani received many awards, most notably the State Prize for Translation, the First Class Medal of Science and Arts, the State Prize for Literature, the King Abdullah International Prize for Translation, the Rifaa Al-Tahtawi Award for Translation, and the ALECSO Prize for Translation.