Dr Abdel-Wahab Khalifa is a Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting at Cardiff University. Prior to joining Cardiff, he lectured at universities in Egypt, Austria and the UK. He is the editor of Translators Have Their Say? Translation and the Power of Agency and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation. He is also the recipient of the 2019-2020 Harry Ransom Fellowship in the Humanities, a member of the Executive Board of the Association for Translation Studies in Africa and serves on the editorial board of The Translator journal. He is co-author, with Alexandra Büchler, of a report on translation of Arabic literature in the UK and Ireland, and us currently working on a monograph on the socio-cultural determinants of translating modern Arabic fiction into English.