Assem El Ammary

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Assem El Ammary (born July 26, 1958 in Luxor ) is an Egyptian linguist , translator , interpreter , journalist and university lecturer. He teaches at the Language Faculty of Ain Shams University in Cairo.

Life

After obtaining the general higher education entrance qualification in 1976, El Ammary studied German, Arabic and English in Cairo, as well as German philology, Islamic studies, general linguistics and the science of the Christian Orient in Bonn and received his doctorate in 1996 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn . His doctorate was supervised by Professor Ulrich Engel .

Until 1997, El Ammary was initially a research assistant, then a senior assistant at the Al-Alsun language faculty at Ain Shams University in Cairo, where he has since taught German studies. At the same time, he worked in adult education in Germany and Luxembourg and worked as a teacher for the Arabic language at the German Foundation for International Development , at the Bildungswerk für Friedensarbeit in Bonn and at the Volkshochschule in Siegburg, and as a translator and interpreter at the Konrad- Adenauer and Friedrich Naumann foundations and at the press office of the federal government. He worked as a journalist at Inter Nationes for the magazines “Fikrun wa Fann”, “Education and Science” and “Report Bilateral for the Arab Countries”.

Since 2000, El Ammary has also been a recognized freelance translator for the German and Austrian and, since 2001, the Swiss embassy in Cairo.

El Ammary is married and has three children.

Memberships

Fonts

  • (1986): The tragedy in Schiller's drama “The Bride of Messina” taking into account oriental influences , Cairo (Master's thesis).
  • (1989): Brief Arabic Studies. A textbook for learning Arabic , Bad Honnef.
  • (1996): The German modal verbs and their verbal equivalents. A contrastive investigation , Heidelberg (= German in contrast 16).

Translations

  • (1992): A handful of dates by Tayyib Salih, in: Stories from Orientasia, Bonn.
  • (2005): The Egyptian village of Karnak in the work of Yahya At-tahir Abdallah , Cairo.

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personal data
SURNAME Ammary, Assem El
ALTERNATIVE NAMES El-Ammary, Assem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian linguist, translator, interpreter, journalist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxor