Dina Turgalievna Koptileuova was born in 1972 in Almaty region, Kazakhstan. In 1989–1994 she graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Казахский национальный университет имени аль-Фараби with a degree in Oriental Languages and Literature (Arabic Philology). Qualification: philologist, lecturer of Kazakh language and literature, lecturer of Arabic language and literature, translator. From 1994 to 1995 she worked as an assistant at the Department of Arabic Philology. Since 1995 she has been serving as lecturer, senior lecturer and currently Associate Professor at the Department of Middle East and South Asia, Faculty of Oriental Studies. In 2006 she obtained the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences (PhD equivalent) in the specialty 10.01.06 “Literature of the Peoples of Asia and Africa.” Her dissertation focused on the role of Yahya Haqqi’s critical heritage in the formation of modern Egyptian literature. In 2011 she was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor in Literary Studies. Her research interests include foreign literature, cultural and literary contacts, intertextuality and literary borrowings, linguoculturology, language and culture, higher education management, and methods of teaching literature. She completed language training at Cairo University (1999), participated in seminars organized by Umm al-Qura University and the Islamic League (2002), attended ISESCO professional development programs (2004), and took part in international academic seminars in the Netherlands, Turkey, USA and France. In 2017 she completed a research internship at the “Midden Oosten Perspectiff” Research Center (Leiden, the Netherlands). Under her supervision 6 Master’s theses and 1 PhD dissertation (2025) were successfully defended. She is the recipient of the national grant “Best University Teacher – 2014” awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan. Author of more than 90 scientific and educational publications.