Paul Starkey

Paul Starkey is a British scholar and translator of Arabic literature.^[1] He received his doctorate from Oxford University; the subject of his dissertation was the works of the Egyptian writer Tawfiq Hakim.^[2] He is currently the head of the Arabic department at the University of Durham.^[3] He is also co-director of the Centre for Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), a collaborative project by the Universities of Edinburgh, Durham and Manchester.

Starkey is the author of Modern Arabic Literature (2006), a survey of the field. He has also edited a number of books, contributed book chapters, and written essays, scholarly articles and monographs. He is a specialist on the Sixties Generation of Egyptian writers, in particular Sonallah Ibrahim and Edwar al-Kharrat.

Starkey has translated several contemporary Arabic novels, including works by Edwar al-Kharrat and Mansoura Ez-Eldin. His translations have been published in Banipal magazine. He has also served on the judging panel of the Arabic Booker Prize.

Books

As author

• Modern Arabic Literature (2006)

As editor

• Egypt Through the Eyes of Travellers, 2002 (co-edited with Nadia El Kholy)
• Interpreting the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East, vol 2, 2001 (with Janet Starkey)
• Unfolding the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East, 2001 (with Janet Starkey)
• Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature (two volumes), 1998 (with Julie Scott Meisami)
• Travellers in Egypt, 1998 (with Janet Starkey)

As translator

• Dear Mr Kawabata by Rachid al-Daif
• Maryam's Maze by Mansoura Ez-Eldin
• Shumaisi by Turki Al-Hamad
• Stones of Bobello by Edwar Al-Kharrat
• We Are All Equally Far from Love by Adania Shibli

See also

• List of Arabic-English translators

Reference