Dr Angele Botros Samaan was born the 3rd of October 1923 in Marsa Matrouh (Egypt) and she died the 22nd of November 2011 in Cairo.

She obtained a BA (with Honours) and MA degree from the Faculty of Arts Department of English Literature and Language in Cairo University.

She obtained her PhD from London University in 1962, with a thesis untitled The Novel of Utopianism and Prophecy From Lytton (1871) to Orwell (1949) With Special Reference to Its Reception.

[1] She is best known as the co-translator of Sugar Street, the third volume of the Cairo Trilogy by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

She also translated Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Thomas More's Utopia from English to Arabic.