Elliott Colla is an American scholar of the Middle East, specializing in
Arabic literature and culture. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at
Georgetown University.
Career
Colla received a B.A. from
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...
in 1989 and his Ph.D. in
Comparative literature as from Berkeley in 2000.
His translation of ''Gold Dust'' was runner-up for the
Banipal Prize
The Banipal Prize, whose full name is the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, is an annual prize awarded to a translator (or translators) for the published English translation of a full-length literary work in the Arab ...
in 2009.
He is a co-editor of the e-zine, ''
Jadaliyya''.
His novel ''Baghdad Central'' was adapted into a
television series of the same name in 2020.
Books
* ''Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
* ''Baghdad Central'' London: Bitter Lemon Press, 2014.
Translations
*
Ibrahim Aslan
Ibrahim Aslan (1935 – 7 January 2012) (Arabic:إبراهيم أصلان) was a famous Egyptian novelist and short story writer.
Biography and work
Aslan was born in Tanta in the Nile delta in 1935, shortly before his family moved south to Cair ...
- ''The Heron''
*
Idris Ali - ''Poor''
*
Ibrahim al-Koni
Ibrāhīm al-Kōnī (sometimes translated as Ibrāhīm Kūnī) ( ar, ابراهيم الكوني) is a Libyan writer and is considered to be one of the most prolific Arab novelists.
Biography
Born in 1948 in the Fezzan Region, Ghadamis City, ...
- ''Gold Dust''
*
Rabai Madhoun
Rabai al-Madhoun (born 1945) is a Palestinian journalist, novelist and writer. He was born in the village of al-Majdal in British Mandatory Palestine, near Ashkelon in present-day Israel. His family was driven out of Palestine in the 1948 Palesti ...
- ''The Lady from Tel Aviv''
Further reading
Looking for the Three of DiamondsMERIP.
The Poetry of Revoltjadaliyya e-zine.
The People WantMERIP.
The Persistence of Jokesjadaliyya e-zine.
Wallsjadaliyya e-zine.
The Poetry of Revolt” in the New EgyptRadio Open Source.
See also
*
List of Arabic-English translators
References
External links
author webpageGeorgetown University BiographyBanipal Biography
Middle Eastern studies scholars
American translators
Arabic–English translators
Living people
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
Georgetown University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
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