Hussein Mahmoud is a Professor of Italian Language and Literature and the Dean of the School of Linguistics & Translation, Badr University in Cairo (BUC). Since he has joined the BUC, the focus of his research interests has been within the fields of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies. Prior to joining the BUC, Prof. Mahmoud had a profound teaching experience in multiple public and private universities in Egypt. His main affiliation was to Helwan University from 1999. Before joining Academia, he had worked in Journalism for 17 years. Moreover, Prof. Mahmoud has authored a dozen of books and almost 1200 journal articles and conference papers covering various fields and interests, but with special focus on culture, literature, philosophy, politics, and translation studies. Prof. Mahmoud has also translated up to forty books from Arabic to Italian and vice versa.

He has also organized and participated in many meetings, conferences, and courses of scientific topics in Egypt and in other foreign countries, especially in Italy where

he was a visiting professor at Rome University. He also has a teaching experience in Napoli, Milan, and Bologna universities.

He was awarded some prestigious prizes such as the International Flaiano Award and the Pagliarani Award in Italy. In addition, his research has been recognized as the best research in Helwan University, and he is chosen as one of 100 influential ex alumni of Italian Language in the world by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Vice Dean of Research and Graduate Studies

Nihad Mansour is a Professor of Translation Studies, Head of the English Department, School of Linguistics and Translation, BUC. She is the Former Head of the Institute of Applied Linguistics & Translation, Alexandria University.

Prof. Mansour has a long experience in teaching translation and interpreting studies and linguistics modules. Mansour has refereed publications in the field of Translation & Interpreting Studies, multimodality, corpus-based translation studies & political discourse analysis.  She supervised a considerable number of academic dissertations in Translation Studies & Interpreting Studies with the main focus on the translation of Arabic literature, political discourse analysis, cognitive studies in interpreting and corpus-based translation studies, and feminism in translation.

Her teaching experience includes TAFL, Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, in British & American students’ exchange programs at Alexandria University & Middlebury Arabic School, USA.  She is also an experienced conference interpreter in national and international conferences.

Vice Dean of Environmental Affairs and Community Development

Lamia El Sherif is a professor of Italian comparative literature in the Faculty of Arts- Helwan University and the Head of the Italian Department, School of Linguistics – BUC. Lamia was a demonstrator at the Academy of Arts from November 1996 till January 1998 and in the Italian Department – Faculty of Arts- Helwan University from January 1998 till December 2003. She worked as an assistant lecturer in the Faculty of Arts- Helwan University – Italian Department from March 2004 till August 2008. She also worked at Helwan University as a lecturer of Italian Literature from January 2009 till March 2015. Lamia worked as an Associate professor of Italian comparative literature from March 2015 till May 2020. She works as a professor of the Arabic language – Faculty of Arts – Università E-Campus – Italy.

Lamia has got scholarships from the University of Perugia- Italy 1994, University of Siena – Italy 1998, Institute of Gemona 1999, University of Sapienza – Roma 2000. She received many invitations from Italian universities to give lectures on Italian comparative literature such as the University of Napoli 2013, Sapienza 2013, and E-Campus 2019.

Lamia also participated in many conferences and is a member of the Refaa award jury for translation 2018, Youth award jury for translation 2018, book fair award jury 2019, Premio Strega 2020. She also has many activities of translation of Italian book: ” Le storie di Jufà”2019, “La letteratura Araba contemporanea dalla Nahda a oggi”2019 (Centro Nazionale della traduzione- Il Cairo), “Italia patria degli scienziati” (Dar El Shorouk), 2010. Furthermore, she is a supervisor of scientific research on Italian literature and Italian comparative literature.

Dr. Fatma Taher started her career in 1989 at Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, Department of English as an English Language Instructor. Between 1991- 1994 she got her M.A. in African Literature written in English, applying Feminism theory on works by female and male authors. Between the years 2000- 2004, she finished her PH. D in African American Literature.

She was then appointed as an Assistant professor at Misr University for Science and Technology. She carried out research tasks and activities till she was promoted to Associate professor of English Literature. All through the past number of years, she has had a long teaching and researching experience in many Universities and prominent educational institutions in Egypt and many Arab countries.

She has also supervised many translation projects, attended several international and national conferences and workshops in the academic field. Dr. Taher is a Certified TOT and has a very long experience in Education Quality Assurance and Accreditation and Human Development.