Kamal Abu-Deeb

Chair of Arabic at the University of London

Kamal Abu-Deeb in Arabic (كمال أبو ديب) (born 1942 in Safita, Syria) is Chair of Arabic at the University of London. He was a Leverhulme Trust Fellow.^[1]

Life

He graduated from Damascus University, Trinity College, Oxford, and St John's College, Oxford.^[2]

He edited the journal Mawakif with poet Adunis.^[2]

Prof. Hisham Sharabi described him as "a leading Syrian structuralist critic."^[3]

Works

Issa J. Boullata; Kamal Abdel-Malek; Wael B. Hallaq, eds. (2000). "The Collapse of Totalizing Discourse and the Rise of Marginalized/Minority Discourses". Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature: Essays in Honor of Professor Issa J. Boullata. BRILL. pp. 335–. ISBN 90-04-11763-6.
Adhabat al-Mutanabbi fi Suhbat Kamal Abu-Deeb wa al-'Aks bi al-'Aks, Al-Saqi Books, London & Beirut, 1996^[4]

References

^ "Studying Arabic and Islam for a degree at SOAS | University of London".
^ ^a ^b Mounah Abdallah Khouri (1997). Tradition & Modernity in Arabic Literature (c). University of Arkansas Press. pp. 273–. ISBN 978-1-61075-433-0.
^ Sharabi, Hisham. “Cultural Critics of Contemporary Arab Society.” Arab Studies Quarterly 9, no. 1 (1987), 9.
^ "Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature - Contributors - Kamal Abu Deeb".

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20141006153820/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mellon-program/seminars/2006-2007/abstracts/deeb.shtml
http://soas.academia.edu/Kamalabudeeb