Rasheed El-Enany (born 1949) is an Egyptian literary scholar, who specializes in modern

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 ...

. He is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, and Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the

Doha Institute for Graduate Studies The Doha Institute for Graduate Studies is a higher education institute in Doha, Qatar. Its first student enrollment was in the 2015/2016 academic year. The Doha Institute is intended as a graduate studies academy; students enrolled in its progra ...

. He is also Professor Emeritus at the

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a public university , public research university in Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of Min ...

. An expert on the novels of

Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( arz, نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...

, he delivered the Mahfouz Memorial Lecture at the

American University in Cairo The American University in Cairo (AUC; ar, الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, Al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs ...

in 2009.Hazem Zohny
Rasheed el-Enany on modern Arabic lit: not quite a Renaissance
''Egypt Independent'', December 16, 2009. His daughter is the legal scholar

Nadine El-Enany Nadine El-Enany is a writer and legal scholar. She is Professor of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent. She specializes in migration and refugee law, European Union law, protest and criminal law. Life Nadine El-Enany is the daughter of ...

Works

* ''Naguib Mahfouz: the pursuit of meaning''. London, New York: Routledge, 1993. * ''Arab representations of the Occident: east-west encounters in Arab fiction''. London, New York: Routledge, 2005 * ''Naguib Mahfouz: his life and thought''. 2007. * (tr.) ''Tales of encounter: three Egyptian novellas'' by

Yusuf Idris Yusuf Idris, also Yusif Idris ( ar, يوسف إدريس) (May 19, 1927 – August 1, 1991) was an Egyptian writer of plays, short stories, and novels. Biography Idris was born in Faqous. He originally trained to be a doctor, studying at the U ...

. Cairo, Egypt: The American University in Cairo Press, 2012.

References

1949 births Living people Egyptian literary critics Academics of the University of Exeter {{Egypt-bio-stub