Nagwa Shaaban

Shaaban was married and had one son with her husband. On 30 August 2019, she died after a struggle with ill health. A memorial ceremony for Shabban was organised by the Batana Publishing Foundation on 4 September 2019.

In 1995, Shaaban authored the early short stories collection The Labyrinths as her first literary work. Three years later, she authored and published her first novel Al-Ghar that explored family roots and the practice of slave smuggling in spite of Isma'il Pasha attempting to abolish the practice. The novel earned Shaaban the Sharjah Girls' Clubs Award. She wrote her second novel, Nawat Al-Karam, which was based on history and first published by the Cairo-based Merit Publishing House in 2002; she had completed it on 15 May 2001. Shaaban was named the winner of the State Encouragement Award by the Ministry of Culture of Egypt in 2004 for her work on the novel. Her final novel, Al-Mursi, was published by The New Culture House in 2008. She had ceased her literary working in the final years of her life.

Nagwa Shaaban (6 August 1959 – 30 August 2019) was an Egyptian writer of novels and translator. She worked as a cultural officer and translator of English articles into Arabic for Middle East News Agency. Shaaban authored three novels, earning the Sharjah Girls' Clubs Awards for the 1995 work Al-Ghar and the State Encouragement Award from the Ministry of Culture of Egypt in 2004 for Nawat Al-Karam published two years earlier.