Yasir Suleiman
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Yasir Suleiman is professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern studies and director of the Edinburgh Institute for the Advanced Study of Islam and the Middle East at the University of Edinburgh.[1][2] He is a Palestinian Arab living in diaspora.[3]
He lectured nationally and internationally on various topics related to Middle East.
He was selected to be a trustee of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2007-2009).
[edit] Bibliography
In addition to authoring books, Yasir Suleiman was an editor of a number of monographs is Arabic studies.
- A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (2004) Cambridge University Press, ISBN 052183743X
- The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology (2003) Georgetown University Press, ISBN 0-87840-395-7
- The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Study in Ta'lil (2000) Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0748606971
[edit] References
- ^ Leslie J. McLoughlin (2002) "In a Sea of Knowledge: British Arabists in the Twentieth Century", ISBN 0863722881, p. 224.
- ^ Yassir Suleiman's profile at the Supreme Educational Council. Qatar
- ^ Yasir Suleiman, A War of Worlds, Introduction, p. 1.
