Nagwa Shaaban

Nagwa Shaaban (6 August 1959 – 30 August 2019) was an Egyptian writer of novels and translator. She worked as a cultural officer and translator of English articles into Arabic for Middle East News Agency. Shaaban authored three novels, earning the Sharjah Girls' Clubs Awards for the 1995 work Al-Ghar and the State Encouragement Award from the Ministry of Culture of Egypt in 2004 for Nawat Al-Karam published two years earlier.

Biography She was born in Damietta, Egypt. Shaaban was a graduate of the Faculty of Media, Cairo University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She went on to obtain a diploma from the International Labour Organization.and got employment as a cultural officer for the Middle East News Agency (MENA). She conducted presentations of recently released books. a topic she had an interest in and one of those papers influenced Shahla Al-Ajili to write the novel Nawat Al-Karam. She wrote critical reviews on the works of Egyptian novelists. Three years later, The novel earned Shaaban the Sharjah Girls' Clubs Award. She wrote her second novel, Nawat Al-Karam, which was based on history and first published by the Cairo-based Merit Publishing House in 2002; A memorial ceremony for Shabban was organised by the Batana Publishing Foundation on 4 September 2019. Alqabas observed that "she is not concerned with monitoring major events or well-known personalities whose history everyone knows by referring to historical sources, but it is concerned with those who have history on their shoulders without having the opportunity to write this history, because this opportunity is almost dependent on those who own the order of the history writers themselves."