Elliott Colla is an American scholar of the Middle East, specializing in
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 ...
and culture. He is an associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...
and leads the Reading Palestine book club at Lost City Books.
Career
Colla received a B.A. from
University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and his Ph.D. in
Comparative literature
Comparative literature studies is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across language, linguistic, national, geographic, and discipline, disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role ...
from Berkeley in 2000.
His translation of ''Gold Dust'' was runner-up for the
Banipal Prize in 2009.
He is a co-editor of the e-zine, ''
Jadaliyya
''Jadaliyya'' (" dialectic") is an independent ezine founded in 2010 by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) to cover the Arab World and the broader Middle East. It publishes articles in Arabic, French, English and Turkish, and is run primarily o ...
''.
In addition to translations and academic works, he has published a novel ''Baghdad Central'' (2014). This was adapted as a
television series of the same name, released in 2020.
Books
* ''Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity.'' Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
* ''Baghdad Central'' London: Bitter Lemon Press, 2014.
Translations
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Ibrahim Aslan - ''The Heron''
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Idris Ali - ''Poor''
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Ibrahim al-Koni - ''Gold Dust''
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Rabai Madhoun - ''The Lady from Tel Aviv''
Further reading
Looking for the Three of Diamonds MERIP.
"The Poetry of Revolt" jadaliyya e-zine.
The People Want MERIP.
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
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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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