Kamal Abu-Deeb Explained
Kamal Abu-Deeb in Arabic (كمال أبو ديب) (born 1942 in Safita, Syria) is Chair of Arabic at the University of London. He was a Leverhulme Trust Fellow.[1]
Life
He graduated from Damascus University, Trinity College, Oxford, and St John's College, Oxford.[2]
He edited the journal Mawakif with poet Adunis.[2]
Prof. Hisham Sharabi described him as "a leading Syrian structuralist critic."[3]
Works
- Book: Issa J. Boullata. Kamal Abdel-Malek. Wael B. Hallaq. Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature: Essays in Honor of Professor Issa J. Boullata. https://books.google.com/books?id=EfbZD12zyuIC&pg=PA335. 2000. BRILL. 90-04-11763-6. 335–. The Collapse of Totalizing Discourse and the Rise of Marginalized/Minority Discourses.
- Adhabat al-Mutanabbi fi Suhbat Kamal Abu-Deeb wa al-'Aks bi al-'Aks, Al-Saqi Books, London & Beirut, 1996[4]
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20141006153820/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mellon-program/seminars/2006-2007/abstracts/deeb.shtml
- http://soas.academia.edu/Kamalabudeeb
Notes and References
- Web site: Studying Arabic and Islam for a degree at SOAS | University of London.
- Book: Mounah Abdallah Khouri. Tradition & Modernity in Arabic Literature (c). University of Arkansas Press. 978-1-61075-433-0. 273–. 1997.
- Sharabi, Hisham. “Cultural Critics of Contemporary Arab Society.” Arab Studies Quarterly 9, no. 1 (1987), 9.
- Web site: Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature - Contributors - Kamal Abu Deeb.
