Catherine Cobham is a scholar and translator of

Arabic literature Arabic literature ( / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is ''Adab (Islam), Adab'', which comes from a meaning of etiquett ...

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She obtained a BA from

Leeds University The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed ...

and an MA from

Manchester University The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The University of Manchester is c ...

and presently teaches at the

University of St Andrews The University of St Andrews (, ; abbreviated as St And in post-nominals) is a public university in St Andrews, Scotland. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and, f ...

. She has translated numerous literary works from Arabic to English, including several by the Lebanese author

Hanan al-Shaykh Hanan al-Shaykh (; born 12 November 1945) is a Lebanese author of contemporary literature. Biography Hanan al-Shaykh was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1945, into a strict Shi'a family. Her father and brother exerted strict social control over ...

. *

Adunis Ali Ahmad Said Esber (, Levantine Arabic, North Levantine ; born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis ( ), is a Syrian people, Syrian poet, essayist and translator. Maya Jaggi, writing for The Guardian stated "He led a mod ...

– ''An Introduction to Arab Poetics'' * Fuad al–Takarli – ''The Long Way Back'' *

– '' Beirut Blues'' * Hanan al-Shaykh – ''I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops'' * Hanan al-Shaykh – ''Only in London'' * Hanan al-Shaykh – ''

Women of Sand and Myrrh ''Women of Sand and Myrrh'' is a novel written by Hanan al-Shaykh. It is al-Shaykh's fifth novel. It was originally published in 1989 as ''Misk al-ghazal'' () and was published in English in 1992. The English translator is Catherine Cobham. '' ...

'' * Hasan Abdallah al-Qurashi – ''Spectres of Exile and Other Poems'' (co-translator: John Heath–Stubbs) *

Mahmoud Darwish Mahmoud Darwish (; 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinians, Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet. In 1988 Darwish wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which was the formal declarat ...

– ''A River Dies of Thirst'' *

Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through wo ...

– '' The Harafish'' *

Nawal El Saadawi Nawal El Saadawi (, , 22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote numerous books on the subject of women in Islam, focusing on the concerns of third-world women pertaining to sexuality, p ...

– ''Memoirs of a Woman Doctor'' * Yusuf Idris – ''Rings of Burnished Brass'' * ''A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories'' (co-editor with Sabry Hafez) * ''Jasmine, Lady of the Arabs'' (editor; Safaya Salter, illustrator) * ''The Iraqi Novel: Key Writers, Key Texts, Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature'', 2013 (with Fabio Caiani), Edinburgh University Press, 264 pages – "Followers of Arabic literature have long been awaiting the critical acclaim recently afforded to Iraqi fiction. ... This interest makes ... ''The Iraqi Novel'' a particular timely contribution that will provide English-language readers further exposure to Iraqi literature."

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