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Paul Starkey

Paul Starkey

British scholar and translator of Arabic literature

Paul Starkey is a British scholar and translator of Arabic literature.

Life and career

Starkey received his doctorate from Oxford University; the subject of his dissertation was the works of the Egyptian writer Tawfiq Hakim.[1] He is emeritus professor of the Arabic department at the University of Durham and was also co-director of the Centre for Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), a collaborative project by the Universities of Edinburgh, Durham and Manchester.[2]

Starkey is the author of Modern Arabic Literature (2006), a survey of the field. He has also edited a number of books, contributed book chapters, and written essays, scholarly articles and monographs. He is a specialist on the Sixties Generation of Egyptian writers, in particular Sonallah Ibrahim and Edwar al-Kharrat.

Starkey has translated several contemporary Arabic novels, including works by Edwar al-Kharrat and Mansoura Ez-Eldin. His translations have been published in Banipal magazine and he has also served on the judging panel of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.[3]

Select bibliography

As author

  • Modern Arabic Literature (2006)

As editor

  • Egypt Through the Eyes of Travellers, 2002 (co-edited with Nadia El Kholy)
  • Interpreting the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East, vol 2, 2001 (with Janet Starkey)
  • Unfolding the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East, 2001 (with Janet Starkey)
  • Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature (two volumes), 1998 (with Julie Scott Meisami)
  • Travellers in Egypt, 1998 (with Janet Starkey)

As translator

  • Dear Mr Kawabata by Rachid al-Daif
  • Maryam's Maze by Mansoura Ez-Eldin
  • Shumaisi by Turki Al-Hamad
  • Stones of Bobello by Edwar Al-Kharrat
  • We Are All Equally Far from Love by Adania Shibli
  • The Drowning by Hammour Ziada
  •  ? East Winds, West Winds by Mahdī ʻĪsá Ṣaqr. American University in Cairo Press 2010.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Profile as Judge of the International Prize for Arab Fiction". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  2. [2]
    "Professor PG Starkey - Durham University". www.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  3. [3]
    "Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature - Contributors - Paul Starkey". www.banipal.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
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