Saad A. Albazei
Saad A. Albazei is a Saudi Arabian academic and literary critic.[1] He studied English at the University of Riyadh, graduating in 1974. He then went to the United States where he obtained a doctorate from Purdue University. A member of the Saudi Shura Council, he has been a lecturer at King Saud University for three decades.
He has published widely on Arabic literature, including several volumes of literary criticism and analysis. His book Languages of Poetry: Poems and Readings won the Saudi Ministry of Culture's Book of the Year Prize in 2011. He also edited the 30-volume Global Arabic Encyclopaedia. He chaired the judging panel for the 2014 Arabic Booker Prize.