Daniel Newman (academic)
British writer, scholar and translator (born 1963)
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Daniel Lawrence Newman (1963 – March 2026)[2] was a British writer, scholar and translator of Arabic literature.[3][4][5] He served as a special advisor to the Islamic Criminal Justice Project at the Centre for Criminal Law & Justice, Durham Law School, and previously as a member of council at the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies from 2008 to 2012.[6]
1963
Daniel Newman | |
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| Born | Daniel Lawrence Newman 1963 |
| Died | March 2026 (aged 62–63) |
| Occupation | Writer, translator and professor (University of Durham) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | SOAS, University of London |
| Subject | Arabic literature |
| Notable awards | Republic of Tunisia International Prize for Islamic Studies |
| Website | |
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Academic career
Newman received his doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.[7]
Newman's research in Arabic studies centered on linguistics (phonetics and dialectology) and literature. He was a specialist on the 19th-century Nahda (Arab Renaissance) movement in Egypt and Tunisia and published extensively on this topic. He was also involved in a long-term project on mediaeval Arabic erotic literature which resulted in the edition and translation of original manuscripts.[8]
Newman translated several works of Arabic literature, both from the pre-modern and modern era. These include Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz by Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (under the title An Imam in Paris) and Modern Arabic Short Stories. In 2008, he was the co-recipient of the Republic of Tunisia International Prize for Islamic Studies for the book Muslim Women in Law and Society.[9]
Since 2011, Newman had been cited as an expert on the Middle East for Al Jazeera and the Voice of America, among other outlets.[3][4]
Books
Author
- The Exile’s Cookbook: Medieval Gastronomic Treasures from al-Andalus & North Africa, London: Saqi Books, 2023.
- The Sultan’s Feast: A Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook, London: Saqi Books, 2020.
- The Sultan’s Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages, Saqi Books, 2014.
- A to Z of Arabic-English-Arabic Translation, London: Saqi Books, 2013 (co-authored with R. Husni).
- Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader - Twelve Stories by Contemporary Masters from Morocco to Iraq, London: Saqi Books, 2008 (co-authored with R. Husni).
- Arabic-English Thematic Lexicon, Routledge, 2007.
- Muslim Women in Law and Society: Annotated translation of al-Tahir al-Haddad's Imra 'tuna fi 'l-sharia wa 'l-mujtama, with an introduction, Routledge, 2007 (co-authored with R. Husni).
- An Imam in Paris: Al-Tahtawi's Visit to France (1826–1831), London: Saqi Books, 2004 (2nd revised edition 2011).
- Elsevier’s Dictionary of Ports and Shipping (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German), Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1993 (co-authored with J. Van der Tuin).
Editor
- Proceedings of the 1st Annual International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics (L3 2012), Singapore, 2012.
- Maritime Terminology: Issues in Communication and Translation. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Maritime Terminology, Brussels, 1999 (with M. Van Campenhoudt).