Yasir Suleiman

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

is the Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the

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. He is a

Palestinian Arab Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

living in the diaspora. Suleiman holds degrees from Amman University, the

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, and Durham University. He lectures nationally and internationally on various topics related to the

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. He was selected to be a trustee of the

International Prize for Arabic Fiction The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) ( ar, الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية) is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world. Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic ...

(2007—2009). He was appointed

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(CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for his services to scholarship.

Bibliography

In addition to authoring books, Yasir Suleiman was an editor of a number of monographs is Arabic studies. * ''Arabic in the Fray: Language Ideology and Cultural Politics'' (2013) '' Edinburgh University Press'', * ''A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East'' (2004) ''

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'', * ''The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology'' (2003) '' Georgetown University Press'', * ''The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Study in Ta'lil'' (2000) '' Edinburgh University Press'',

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suleiman, Yasir Humanities academics Academics of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of King's College, Cambridge Living people Palestinian academics Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Year of birth missing (living people) University of Jordan alumni Alumni of the University of St Andrews Alumni of Durham University