Mahmoud Hassanein

Mahmoud Hassanein was born in Cairo in 1982. He studied German and Arabic Studies in Cairo and Translation Studies in Germersheim. As a translator, he translated contemporary German-language prose into Arabic. He also worked as a research associate at the Department of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim. His research included the sociology of translation and literary translation. In 2014, he received the Goethe-Institut’s German-Arab Translator Award in the Emerging Translator category.