Kamal Abu-Deeb

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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[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

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

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