Prof. Ahlam Othman is Professor of English Language & Literature and Head of English Language and Literature Department, Faculty of Humanities, Al-Azhar University. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature from Al-Azhar University and two MA degrees: one in English Literature from Al-Azhar University; the other in TEFL from the AUC. In addition, Prof. Othman has registered for another Ph.D. in Comparative Poetics. The title of the dissertation is: “Ezra Pound's Cantos and Alaa Abd al-Hadi’s An-Nashida: A Comparative Poetics Study.” Prof. Othman's published translations include Alaa Abd Al-Hadi's volume of poetry titled: Shagin [Sympathetici], Toyouf Publishing House, 2024, and Alaa Abd Al-Hadi's book in comparative poetics titled: Al-Naw’ Al-Nawawī [The Nucleo-genre Paradigm: Towards A Unifying Approach to the Field of Comparative Poetics,] Markaz al-Hadarah al-Arabeyya, 2022. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nucleo-genre-Paradigm-Unifying-Approach-Comparative/dp/9774965698 In addition, Prof. Othman translated other volumes of poetry by Alaa Abd al-Hadi that have not been published yet, including: “The Cantata,” “Icarus or Plotting the Dark,” “The Ghain Lexicon,” “Neglected you Tell by his Shadow,” and “Water Biography.” • Prof. Othman’s has published three books: Studies in Comparative Literature, Irish Adaptations of Greek Tragedy and Myth in Contemporary Native American and Egyptian Fiction. She has also published papers in Comparative Literature, Literary Translation and Comparative Poetics