Yasir Suleiman
Yasir Suleiman CBE is the Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge.[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).
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to scholarship.[4][5]
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 0-521-83743-X
- 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 0-7486-0697-1
References
- ↑ Leslie J. McLoughlin (2002) "In a Sea of Knowledge: British Arabists in the Twentieth Century", ISBN 0-86372-288-1, p. 224.
- ↑ Yassir Suleiman's profile at the Supreme Educational Council. Qatar Archived 13 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Yasir Suleiman, A War of Worlds, Introduction, p. 1.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59808. p. 8. 11 June 2011.
- ↑ "Main list of the 2011 Queen's birthday honours recipients" (PDF). BBC News UK. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
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