Daniel Lawrence Newman (born 1963) is a British writer, scholar and translator of Arabic literature.
He is a specialist on the 19th-century Nahda (Arab Renaissance) movement in Egypt and Tunisia and has published extensively on this topic.
He is also involved in a long-term project on mediaeval Arabic erotic literature which will result in the edition and translation of original manuscripts.
These include Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz by Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (under the title An Imam in Paris) and Modern Arabic Short Stories.
In 2008, he was the co-recipient of the Republic of Tunisia International Prize for Islamic Studies for the book Muslim Women in Law and Society.