Ferial Jabouri Ghazoul is an

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i scholar, critic, and translator. She was educated in Iraq, Lebanon, Britain, France, and the USA. She obtained her PhD in

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from

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in 1978. Currently, she is chair and professor of English and comparative literature at the

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Career as a scholar

As a scholar, Ghazoul has a number of significant publications, notably the encyclopaedic ''Arab Women Writing: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999'' (2008) which she co-edited with

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and Hasna Reda-Mekdashi. The book was chosen by ''Choice'' journal as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of the year. Among other works, Ghazoul is the author of ''Nocturnal Poetics: The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context'' (

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, 1996). Her principal research interests are comparative literature and postcolonial studies, and she has written numerous scholarly articles, book reviews and book chapters on these topics. She is the founding editor of ''Alif: A Journal of Comparative Poetics'', one of the AUC's flagship journals.

Career as a translator

As a literary translator, Ghazoul is a past winner of the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award. Ghazoul and co-translator

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won the award for their translation of

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's volume of poetry ''Rubaiyat al-farah'' (''Quartet of Joy''). The duo have also translated

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's classic novel ''Rama and the Dragon'', and in July 2010, they received a $100,000 grant from the

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to translate the works of the

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i poet

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."AUC Professors Receive Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities", AUC News, 21 July 2010
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, Ghazoul has translated critical works from English and French into Arabic. Below is a list of the diverse genres and authors that she has translated so far: *Poetry:

, Muhammad Sulayman,

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Mourid Barghouti Mourid Barghouti ( ar, مريد البرغوثي, ; 8 July 1944 – 14 February 2021) was a Palestinian poet and writer. Biography Barghouti was born in Deir Ghassana, near Ramallah, on the West Bank, in 8 July 1944. He studied English litera ...

, Jabra Jabra, Sami Mahdi,

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, Abdel-Moneim Ramadan, Amal Dunqul,

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, Nazik al-Mala’ika *Novel:

*Short story:

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*Autobiography:

*Critical theory:

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, Abdel-Wahab Meddeb,

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*Essays:

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, ...

Ahlam Mosteghanemi Ahlem Mosteghanemi ( ar, أحلام مستغانمي), alternatively written Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) is an Algerian writer who has been called "''probably the world's best-known Arabophone woman novelist''". She was the first Algerian wom ...

Alifa Rifaat Fatimah Rifaat (June 5, 1930 – January 1996), better known by her pen name Alifa Rifaat ( ar, أليفة رفعت), was an Egyptian author whose controversial short stories are renowned for their depictions of the dynamics of female sexuality, r ...

, Abdo Wazen,

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*Interview:

Selected works

As author

* ''Nocturnal Poetics: The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context'' * ''The Arabian Nights: A Structural Analysis''

As editor

* ''Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999'' (co-edited with

and Hasna Reda-Mekdashi) * ''Edward Said and Critical Decolonization'' (editor) * ''The View from Within: Writers and Critics on Contemporary Arabic Literature'' (co-edited with Barbara Harlow) * ''Alif: Journal of Contemporary Poetics'' (founding editor)

As translator

* ''Quartet of Joy'' by

(co-translated with

) * ''Rama and the Dragon'' by

(co-translated with John Verlenden) * ''Solomon Rex'' by Muhammad Sulayman

References

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