Yasir Suleiman CBE is the Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is a Palestinian Arab living in the diaspora.
Suleiman holds degrees from Amman University, the University of St Andrews, and Durham University. He lectures on topics related to the Middle East. He was selected to be a trustee of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2007—2009).
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for his services to scholarship.
Bibliography
In addition to authoring books, Yasir Suleiman was an editor of a number of monographs is Arabic studies.
- Arabic in the Fray: Language Ideology and Cultural Politics (2013) Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0748680313
- A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (2004) Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-83743-X
- The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology (2003) Georgetown University Press, ISBN 0-87840-395-7
- The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Study in Ta'lil (2000) Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0-7486-0697-1
References
- Leslie J. McLoughlin (2002) "In a Sea of Knowledge: British Arabists in the Twentieth Century", ISBN 0-86372-288-1, p. 224.
- Yassir Suleiman's profile at the Supreme Educational Council. Qatar Archived 13 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- Yasir Suleiman, A War of Worlds, Introduction, p. 1.
- Who's Who In Scotland. Irvine: Carrick Media. 2004. p. 503. ISBN 0946724547.
- "No. 59808". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2011. p. 8.
- "Main list of the 2011 Queen's birthday honours recipients" (PDF). BBC News UK. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
- Humanities academics
- Academics of the University of Edinburgh
- Fellows of King's College, Cambridge
- Living people
- 21st-century Palestinian academics
- Palestinian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- University of Jordan alumni
- Alumni of the University of St Andrews
- Alumni of Durham University