Daniel Lawrence Newman (born 1963) is a British writer, scholar and translator of

Arabic literature Arabic literature ( ar, الأدب العربي / 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'', which is derived from ...

. Newman is currently the head of the Arabic department at the

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and Director of the MA programme in English-Arabic Translation and Interpreting. 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 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 ( ar, النهضة, translit=an-nahḍa, meaning "the Awakening"), also referred to as the Arab Awakening or Enlightenment, was a cultural movement that flourished in Arabic-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire, notably in Egypt, Leb ...

'' (

Arab Renaissance The Nahda ( ar, النهضة, translit=an-nahḍa, meaning "the Awakening"), also referred to as the Arab Awakening or Enlightenment, was a cultural movement that flourished in Arabic-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire, notably in Egypt, Leb ...

) movement in

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and

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and has published extensively on this topic. He is also involved in a long-term project on mediaeva
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 at-Tahtawi (also spelt Tahtawy; ar, رفاعة رافع الطهطاوي, ; 1801–1873) was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist and renaissance intellectual. Tahtawi was among the first Egyptian scholars to write about ...

(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

Al Jazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...

and the

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, among others.

Books

Author

* ''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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