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