About Me

Tahia Abdel Nasser is a writer, editor, and professor. She is the author of Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges and Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles. She is the editor of a family memoir, Nasser My Husband. Her stories have appeared in New World Writing, Rigorous, Oyster River Pages, and elsewhere. Her translations have appeared in Mahmoud Darwish: The Adam of Two Edens and The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology.  

She is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo and was a visiting scholar in Germany. She holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Cairo University and an MA and a BA in English and Comparative Literature from the American University in Cairo.