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Kamal Abu-Deeb in Arabic (كمال أبو ديب) (born 1942 in Safita, Syria) is Chair of Arabic at the University of London. He was a Leverhulme Trust Fellow.

Life

He graduated from Damascus University, Trinity College, Oxford, and St John's College, Oxford.

He edited the journal Mawakif with poet Adunis.

Prof. Hisham Sharabi described him as "a leading Syrian structuralist critic."

Works

• Issa J. Boullata; Kamal Abdel-Malek; Wael B. Hallaq, eds. (2000). "The Collapse of Totalizing Discourse and the Rise of Marginalized/Minority Discourses". Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature: Essays in Honor of Professor Issa J. Boullata. BRILL. pp. 335–. ISBN 90-04-11763-6.
• Adhabat al-Mutanabbi fi Suhbat Kamal Abu-Deeb wa al-'Aks bi al-'Aks, Al-Saqi Books, London & Beirut, 1996

References

1. "Studying Arabic and Islam for a degree at SOAS | University of London".
2. ^ Mounah Abdallah Khouri (1997). Tradition & Modernity in Arabic Literature (c). University of Arkansas Press. pp. 273–. ISBN 978-1-61075-433-0.
3. Sharabi, Hisham. “Cultural Critics of Contemporary Arab Society.” Arab Studies Quarterly 9, no. 1 (1987), 9.
4. "Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature - Contributors - Kamal Abu Deeb".

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20141006153820/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mellon-program/seminars/2006-2007/abstracts/deeb.shtml
• http://soas.academia.edu/Kamalabudeeb

• Living people
• 1942 births
• Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
• Syrian expatriates in the United Kingdom
• Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
• Damascus University alumni
• Academics of the University of London