Nancy N. Roberts

She was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. She completed her undergraduate studies in Psychology and religious studies at Western Kentucky University. Then she did a graduate degree in M.S.Applied linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington and went abroad. She lived in Lebanon for one year and five years in Kuwait and returned for about 7 years and she did M.A.Arabic language and Literature at Indiana University. She settled in Jordan and lived there from 1995 until 2015. ==Career==

• Indiana University-Bloomington, associate instructor in English, 1980-81. • American University of Beirut, Lebanon, instructor in English, 1981-82. • Kuwait University, Kuwait City, instructor of English in College of Commerce, 1982-87. • Earlham College, Richmond, IN, instructor in English as a second language, 1988-90. • Indiana University-Bloomington, instructor in Arabic, 1991-93. • AL al-Bayt University, Mafraq, Jordan, instructor in English as a second language, 1994-97. • Federal Broadcasting Information Service, Jordan Bureau, translator, 1998-99. • Free-lance translator, Amman, Jordan, 1999-. • Mitchell Translations, translator from Arabic to English, 1994. ==Works==

Selected Translations: • Beirut ’75 by Ghada al-Samman • Beirut Nightmares by Ghada al-Samman • The Night of the First Billion by Ghada al-Samman • Muntaha by Hala El-Badry • Time of White Horses by Ibrahim Nasrallah • Over the Bridge by Mohamed el-Bisatie • Love in the Rain by Naguib Mahfouz • The Mirage by Naguib Mahfouz • The Man from Bashmour by Salwa Bakr • House of the Wolf by Ezzat el Kamhawi Roberts has also translated works on Islamic history, jurisprudence and Sufism. These include: • The Jurisprudence of the Prophetic Biography, a translation of Fiqh al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah (فقه السيرة النبوية) by Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti • Islamic Jurisprudence According to the Four Sunni Schools, Volume I: Modes of Islamic Worship by Abd al-Rahman Ibn Muhammad Awad al-Jaziri • Apostasy in Islam by Taha Jabir Alalwani ==See also==