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.

References

  1. Leslie J. McLoughlin (2002) "In a Sea of Knowledge: British Arabists in the Twentieth Century", ISBN 0-86372-288-1, p. 224.
  2. Yassir Suleiman's profile at the Supreme Educational Council. Qatar Archived 13 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. Yasir Suleiman, A War of Worlds, Introduction, p. 1.
  4. "No. 59808". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2011. p. 8.
  5. "Main list of the 2011 Queen's birthday honours recipients" (PDF). BBC News UK. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
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