Nancy N. Roberts is an award-winning translator of Arabic literature. Among her literary translations to date are:
Beirut ’75 by Ghada Samman
Beirut Nightmares by Ghada Samman
The Night of the First Billion by Ghada 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
She won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award for her translation of Ghada Samman's Beirut '75. She also received a commendation from the judges of the 2008 Banipal Prize for her translation of Salwa Bakr's The Man from Bashmour.
Roberts has also translated works on Islamic history, jurisprudence and Sufism. These include:
Islamic Jurisprudence According to the Four Sunni Schools, Volume I: Modes of Islamic Worship by Abd al-Rahman Ibn Muhammad Awad al-Jaziri
The Jurisprudence of the Prophetic Biography, a translation of Fiqh al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah (فقه السيرة النبوية) by Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti
Apostasy in Islam by Taha Jabir Alalwani
