Elliott Colla is an American scholar of the Middle East, specializing in Arabic literature and culture.[1] He is an associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University.
Career
Colla received a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Comparative literature from Berkeley in 2000.[2] His translation of Gold Dust was runner-up for the Banipal Prize in 2009.[3] He is a co-editor of the e-zine, Jadaliyya.[4] In addition to translations and academic works, he has published a novel Baghdad Central (2014). This was adapted as a television series of the same name, released in 2020.[5]
Books
- Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
- Baghdad Central London: Bitter Lemon Press, 2014.
Translations
- Ibrahim Aslan - The Heron
- Idris Ali - Poor
- Ibrahim al-Koni - Gold Dust
- Rabai Madhoun - The Lady from Tel Aviv[6]
Further reading
- Looking for the Three of Diamonds Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine MERIP.
- "The Poetry of Revolt", jadaliyya e-zine.
- The People Want Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine MERIP.
- The Persistence of Jokes jadaliyya e-zine.
- Walls jadaliyya e-zine.
- "The Poetry of Revolt” in the New Egypt Radio Open Source.
See also
References
- ^ "Citations search: "Elliott Colla" (Google Books)". Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "Banipal biography". Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "Banipal Trust biography". Banipal Trust. Archived from the original on 2012-08-22. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "Elliott Colla". Jadaliyya. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ Jones, Ellen E. (4 February 2020). "Baghdad Central review – more than just a Middle East Morse". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ "Georgetown University: Elliott Colla". Georgetown University. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
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