Christopher Tingley is an English academic 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 ...

. He was born in Brighton and read

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national id ...

at the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degre ...

(

MPhil The Master of Philosophy (MPhil; Latin ' or ') is a postgraduate degree. In the United States, an MPhil typically includes a taught portion and a significant research portion, during which a thesis project is conducted under supervision. An MPhil m ...

1973) and at

Leeds University , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

, for many years lecturing in English and

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at various African universities: the University of Constantine (

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); the

National University of Rwanda The National University of Rwanda (NUR; rw, Kaminuza nkuru y’u Rwanda, french: Université nationale du Rwanda, UNR) was the largest university in Rwanda. It was located at in the city of Butare and was established in 1963 by the government ...

; and the University of Ouagadougou (

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...

). Tingley is noted as a translator of classic and modern Arabic literature. He has helped to translate book-length works by writers such as Zayd Mutee Dammaj,

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 ...

, Yahya Yakhlif and

Yusuf al-Qa'id Yusuf al-Qa'id ( ar, يوسف القعيد, Yūsuf al-Qaʿīd, translit-std=ALA; born 2 April 1944) is an Egyptian novelist. He is best known in the West for ''War in the Land of Egypt'' ( ar, الحرب في برّ مصر, Al-Ḥarb fī Barr Mi� ...

. His frequent collaborators include

Salma Khadra Jayyusi Salma Khadra Jayyusi ( ar, سلمى الخضراء الجيوسي; born 1926 or 1927) is a Palestinian poet, writer, translator and anthologist. She is the founder and director of the Project of Translation from Arabic (PROTA), which aims to provi ...

, May Jayyusi and

Dina Bosio Dina ( ar, دينا, he, דִּינָה, also spelled Dinah, Dena, Deena) is a female given name. Women * Dina bint Abdul-Hamid (1929–2019), Queen consort of Jordan, first wife of King Hussein * Princess Dina Mired of Jordan (born 1965), Prin ...

. He has served as style editor of PROTA, the Project of Translation from Arabic established by Khadra Jayyusi in 1980. He has also contributed to numerous anthologies of

in English, many of them published by PROTA.

Book-length translations

* ''A Balcony Over the Fakihani: Three Novellas'' by Liyana Badr (co-translator: Peter Clark) * ''A Lake Beyond the Wind'' by Yahya Yakhlif (co-translator: May Jayyusi) * ''A Woman of Five Seasons'' by Leila al-Atrash (co-translator: Nora Nweihid Halwani) * ''Abu Jmeel's Daughter & Other Stories: Arab Folk Tales from Palestine and Lebanon'' (narrator: Jamal Sleem Nuweihed) * ''Homes of the Heart: A Ramallah Chronicle'' by Farouq Wadi (co-translator: Dina Bosio) * ''Tales of Juha: Classic Arab Folk Humor'' (co-translators: Matthew Sorenson, Faisal Khadra) * ''The Bleeding of the Stone'' by

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 ...

(co-translator: May Jayyusi) * ''The Hostage'' by Zayd Mutee' Dammaj (co-translator: May Jayyusi) * ''The Tree and Other Stories'' by Abdallah Al-Nasser (co-translator: Dina Bosio) * '' War in the Land of Egypt'' (1974) by

(co-translators: Olive Kenny,

Lorne Kenny Lorne is a given name and place name especially popular in Canada, due to the Marquess of Lorne, who was Governor General of Canada (1878–1883). Lorne may refer to: People Given name * Lorne Anderson (1931–1984), Canadian hockey player *Lorne ...

) (first English edition in 2004)

Also contributed to

* ''Beyond the Dunes: an anthology of modern Saudi literature'' (editors: Salma Khadra Jayyusi et al.) * ''Classical Arabic Stories: an anthology'' (editor: Salma Khadra Jayyusi) * ''Short Arabic Plays: an anthology'' (editor: Salma Khadra Jayyusi) * ''The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction'' (editor:

Denys Johnson-Davies Denys Johnson-Davies (Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز) (also known as Abdul Wadud) was an eminent Arabic-to- English literary translator who translated, ''inter alia,'' several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, ...

) * ''The Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan: an Arab folk epic'' (translator: Lena Jayyusi) * ''Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry'' by Salma Khadra Jayyusi

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Book-length translations

Also contributed to

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