Daniel Lawrence Newman (born 1963) is a British writer, 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 ...

. He serves as a special advisor to the Islamic Criminal Justice Project at the Centre for Criminal Law & Justice,

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, and served as a member of council at the

British Society for Middle Eastern Studies The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) is a British organization whose purpose is to encourage and advance the study of the Middle East in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1973 and publishes the ''British Journal of Mid ...

from 2008 to 2012.

Academic career

Newman received his doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Newman's research in Arabic studies centres on linguistics (phonetics and dialectology) and literature. He is a specialist on the 19th-century ''

Nahda The Nahda (, meaning 'the Awakening'), also referred to as the Arab Awakening or Arab Enlightenment, was a cultural movement that flourished in Arabs, Arab-populated regions of the Ottoman Empire, notably in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Tunisia, ...

'' (

Arab Renaissance The Nahda (, meaning 'the Awakening'), also referred to as the Arab Awakening or Arab Enlightenment, was a cultural movement that flourished in Arabs, Arab-populated regions of the Ottoman Empire, notably in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Tunisia, ...

) movement in

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

and

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

and has published extensively on this topic. He is also involved in a long-term project on mediaeval Arabic erotic literature which will result in the edition and translation of original manuscripts. Newman has translated several works of Arabic literature, both from the pre-modern and modern era. These include ''Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz'' by

Rifa'a al-Tahtawi Rifa'a Rafi' at-Tahtawi (; 1801–1873) was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist, and intellectual of the ''Nahda'' (the Arab renaissance). One of the first Egyptian travellers to France in the nineteenth century, Tahtawi publish ...

(under the title ''An Imam in Paris'') and ''Modern Arabic Short Stories''. In 2008, he was the co-recipient of the '' Republic of Tunisia International Prize for Islamic Studies'' for the book ''Muslim Women in Law and Society''. Since 2011, Newman has been cited as an expert on the Middle East for

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and the

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, among other outlets.

Books

Author

* ''The Exile’s Cookbook: Medieval Gastronomic Treasures from al-Andalus & North Africa'', London: Saqi Books, 2023. * ''The Sultan’s Feast: A Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook'', London: Saqi Books, 2020. * ''The Sultan’s Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages'', Saqi Books, 2014. * ''A to Z of Arabic-English-Arabic Translation'', London: Saqi Books, 2013 (co-authored with R. Husni). * ''Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader - Twelve Stories by Contemporary Masters from Morocco to Iraq'', London: Saqi Books, 2008 (co-authored with R. Husni). * ''Arabic-English Thematic Lexicon'', Routledge, 2007. * ''Muslim Women in Law and Society: Annotated translation of al-Tahir al-Haddad's Imra 'tuna fi 'l-sharia wa 'l-mujtama, with an introduction'', Routledge, 2007 (co-authored with R. Husni). * ''An Imam in Paris: Al-Tahtawi's Visit to France (1826–1831)'', London: Saqi Books, 2004 (2nd revised edition 2011). * ''Elsevier’s Dictionary of Ports and Shipping (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German)'', Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1993 (co-authored with J. Van der Tuin).

Editor

* ''Proceedings of the 1st Annual International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics (L3 2012)'', Singapore, 2012. * ''Maritime Terminology: Issues in Communication and Translation. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Maritime Terminology'', Brussels, 1999 (with M. Van Campenhoudt).

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