Nariman Youssef

Nariman Youssef (; born 1975) is an Egyptian translator and writer.

Biography Nariman Hassan Youssef was born in 1975. She is the oldest daughter of Egyptian actors Hassan Youssef and Shams al-Baroudi. Youssef is a doctoral candidate at Manchester University and is affiliated with CASAW.

Youssef has also translated poetry by the Omani poet Abdullah al Ryami, among others. In addition, she has written an e-book about the Egyptian revolution under the title Summer of Unrest: Tahrir - 18 Days of Grace. This was released by Vintage Books.

Works

Written works

Summer of Unrest: Tahrir - 18 Days of Grace (2011)

Translated poetry Source:

Our Old Bed by Abdullah al Ryami Please Don't Give Birth! by Abdullah al Ryami Balloons by Mostafa Ibrahim Nothing of Note by Mostafa Ibrahim Beirut39: New Writing from the Arab World (2010) ed. Samuel Shimon The Hundred Years' War

Translated books Source:

The American Granddaughter by Inaam Kachachi Cigarette Number Seven: A Novel (2018) by Donia Kamal Off Limits: New Writings on Fear and Sin (2019) by Nawal El Saadawi Salt Journals: Tunisian Women on Political Imprisonment (2025) (ed. Haifa Zangana, Christalla Yakinthou, and Virginie Ladisch) Mo(a)t: Stories from Arabic (ed. Garen Torikian)